Playing in the dark : whiteness and the literary imagination
Morrison, Toni, 1931-20191992
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Morrison discusses the effect that living in a historically racialized society has had on American writing in the 19th and 20th centuries. She argues that race has become a metaphor, a way of referring to forces, events and forms of social decay, economic division and human panic.
Main title:
Playing in the dark : whiteness and the literary imagination / Toni Morrison.
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Imprint:
Cambridge, Ma. ; London : Harvard University Press, 1992.
Collation:
91p. ; 21cm.
Notes:
Bibliog.
ISBN:
9780674673779
Dewey class:
810.93520396073823810.9896
Local class:
810.9896
Language:
English
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BRN:
1778484