{"product_id":"playing-in-the-dark-whiteness-and-the-literary-imagination","title":"Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination","description":"\u003cb\u003eNATIONAL BESTSELLER - An immensely persuasive work of literary criticism that opens a new chapter in the American dialogue on race--and \u003cb\u003epromises to change the way we read American literature\u003cb\u003e--\u003c\/b\u003efrom the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"[Morrison] boldly...reimagines and remaps the possibility of America.\"--\u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMorrison shows how much the themes of freedom and individualism, manhood and innocence, depended on the existence of a black population that was manifestly \u003ci\u003eunfree\u003c\/i\u003e--and that came to serve white authors as embodiments of their own fears and desires. According to the \u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWritten with the artistic vision that has earned the Nobel Prize-winning author a pre-eminent place in modern letters, \u003ci\u003ePlaying in the Dark\u003c\/i\u003e is an invaluable read for avid Morrison admirers as well as students, critics, and scholars of American literature.\u003cdiv style=\"display:none\"\u003eISBN-10: 0679745424\u003cbr\u003eISBN-13: 9780679745426\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: Morrison, Toni, N\/A, N\/A\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Vintage\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Paperback (Jul 1993)","offer_id":45660021489861,"sku":"9780679745426","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0708\/6414\/2533\/files\/9780679745426.jpg?v=1768916763","url":"https:\/\/www.inveni.store\/products\/playing-in-the-dark-whiteness-and-the-literary-imagination","provider":"Inveni","version":"1.0","type":"link"}