About “Playing in the dark”
Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Toni Morrison examines the significance of African-Americans in the American literary imagination, arguing that race has become a metaphor for social decay, economic division, and human panic, and that core traits of American literature respond to a dark and abiding Africanist presence.
Praise for “Playing in the dark”
“A profound redefinition of American cultural identity.”
“By going for the American literary jugular...she places her arguments...at the very heart of contemporary public conversation about what it is to be authentically and originally American. [She] boldly...reimagines and remaps the possibility of America.”
“Toni Morrison is the closest thing the country has to a national writer.”
Book details
- Published
- 2007
- Latest edition
- 2007 · ISBN 9780307388636
- ISBN
- 9780307388636
Frequently asked questions
How many pages is Playing in the dark?
Playing in the dark by Toni Morrison has 91 pages.
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