Download A Macat Analysis of Toni Morrison's Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination AudioBook Free
Champion of the Pulitzer Award for fiction - and the first black woman to win the Nobel Award in literature - novelist, orator, and outspoken public intellectual Toni Morrison is best known for her novels. In Participating in in the Dark, however, she enters the world of literary criticism. Morrison, an DARK-COLORED, draws focus on the often-overlooked need for race in literature, demonstrating "the impact of racism on those who perpetuate it". She shows that the quintessentially American literary themes or templates of flexibility and individualism rely upon the existence of a black people that was manifestly not free. Reading the racial vocabulary between the lines of traditional American fiction, Morrison implies that literature is never raceless, and that the equating of whiteness with universality is the problematic component that literary studies has been overlooking. Morrison denounces a "color-blind" methodology and asks that we open our eye to the realities of contest, representation, and vitality.
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