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Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination Paperback – July 27, 1993

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Novelist Morrison takes a turn as a literary critic, examining the American literary imagination and finding it obsessed with the white/black polarity.
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"A profound redefinition of American cultural identity."--Philadelphia Inquirer

"By going for the American literary jugular...she places her arguments...at the very heart of contemporary public conversation about what it is to be authentically and originally American. [She] boldly...reimagines and remaps the possibility of America." --Chicago Tribune

"Toni Morrison is the closest thing the country has to a national writer." --The New York Times Book Review

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Vintage; Reprint edition (July 27, 1993)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 91 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0679745424
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0679745426
  • Lexile measure ‏ : ‎ 1260L
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 3.2 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.2 x 0.31 x 7.95 inches
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Toni Morrison was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993. She is the author of several novels, including The Bluest Eye, Beloved (made into a major film), and Love. She has received the National Book Critics Circle Award and a Pulitzer Prize. She is the Robert F. Goheen Professor at Princeton University.

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