Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination - Brossura

Morrison, Toni

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ISBN 10: 0330330640 ISBN 13: 9780330330640

Casa editrice: Picador, 1993

Riassunto

Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Toni Morrison provides a personal inquiry into the significance of African-American literary imagination. Her goal, she states at the outset, is to "put forth an argument for extending the study of American literature". Author of "Beloved", "The Bluest Eye", "Song of Solomon", and other vivid portrayals of black American experience, 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 argument 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.

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Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 1993

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Toni Morrison is a Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winning African American author. Born in Lorain, Ohio, in 1931, she received a B.A. in English from Howard University in 1953 and a Master of Arts degree from Cornell University in 1955. She has taught at Howard and Princeton, and worked as an editor at Random House in New York City. Her first novel, The Bluest Eye, was published in 1970. In 1987, Beloved won her the Pulitzer Prize. She is an important promoter of Black literature and is still considered today as one of the most influential women in America.

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• Editore: Picador
• Data di pubblicazione: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0330330640
• ISBN 13: 9780330330640
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 112