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Toni Morrison - Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination

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16 out of 16 people found this review helpful.

Bringing Light to the Dark

Date of Review:  Oct 31, 2000
The Bottom Line: An extraordinary, powerful work of criticism by America's female, African American Nobel Prize winner for Literature.
Review: Quickly, this is a dense, remarkable book, difficult in spots and incredibly rewarding!

Playing In the Dark is an extended essay by Toni Morrison, America's first African-American woman Nobel Prize Winner for Literature, based on courses...
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  5.0

by: Free2Be
Recommended to buy: Yes

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One of the best works of literary...
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Requires a commitment to thoughtful...
 
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The good and the bad of claiming "a room of one's own."

Date of Review:  Jan 18, 2001
The Bottom Line: The book is very readable, and the insights are strong. Morrison is better with close textual readings; her more overreaching conclusions seemed, to me, a bit of an academic "stretch."
Review: Morrison, Toni. Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and Literary Imagination (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1992). 112 pp. $14.95.

At the outset of this collection of lectures given at Harvard University, Morrison defines sweeping...
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A group of very influential essays.
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Since they are adapted from lectures,...
 

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