Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination

Created: 2025-02-17

Updated: 2025-03-10

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In Brief

Morrison maps how American authors invented and deployed tropes associated with America’s constant ‘African’ presence, using these tropes as a foil to organize their growing sense of ‘Americanness’.

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Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination | OpenLibrary
By: Toni Morrison
Started: 2025-02-21
Finished: 2025-03-10
Amount read: 91 of 91 pages

Progress: 91 pages

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