Playing in the Dark

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Whiteness and the Literary Imagination

Autor: Toni Morrison

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Morrison ponders the effect that living in a historically racialized society has had on American wri...

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Autor

Toni Morrison

Język

Angielski

Oprawa

Książka - Twarda

Data wydania

1992

strony

110

EAN

9780674673779

ISBN

0674673778

Enbook ID

04636356

Wydawca

Harvard University Press

Waga

270

Wymiary

147 x 217 x 14

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Morrison ponders 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. Her point is that the central characteristics of American literature - individualism, masculinity, the insistence upon innocence coupled to an obsession with figurations of death and hell - are responses to a dark and abiding Africanist presence. Through her investigation of black characters, narrative strategies, and idiom in the fiction of white American writers, Morrison provides a daringly original perspective that aims to alter conventional notions about American literature. She considers Willa Cather and the impact of race on concept and plot; turns to Poe, Hawthorne, and Melville to examines the black force that figures so significantly in the literature of early America; and discusses the implications of the Africanist presence at the heart of "Huckleberry Finn". A final chapter on Ernest Hemingway is an exposition of the racial subtext that glimmers beneath the surface plots of his fiction.

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