A Pulitzer Prize-winning author illuminates the Africanist presence shaping the American Imagination in a landmark work of Literary criticism.
Written with the artistic vision that has earned the Nobel Prize-winning author a pre-eminent place in modern letters, Playing in the Dark is an invaluable read for avid Morrison admirers as well as students, critics, and scholars of American literature..
Her brilliant discussions of the Africanist presence in the fiction of Poe, Melville, Cather, and Hemingway leads to a dramatic reappraisal of the essential characteristics of our Literary tradition.
According to the Chicago Tribune , Morrison reimagines and remaps the possibility of America.
An immensely persuasive work of Literary criticism that opens a new chapter in the American dialogue on race--and promises to change the way we read American literature -- from the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner Morrison shows how much the themes of freedom and individualism, manhood and innocence, depended on the existence of a black population that was manifestly unfree --and that came to serve white authors as embodiments of their own fears and desires.
Morrison challenge(s) some of the most widely accepted generalizations about our Literary history.--San Francisco Chronicle.
A Pulitzer Prize-winning author illuminates the Africanist presence shaping the American Imagination in a landmark work of Literary criticism
