Playing In The Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination (By Toni Morrison)

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/400732 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Playing In The Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination Author: Toni Morrison Narrator: Bahni Turpin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 9 minutes Release date: May 5, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: Social Science Publisher's Summary: 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. According to the Chicago Tribune, Morrison 'reimagines and remaps the possibility of America.' 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.  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.