Toni Morrison - Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination (Paperback) Spirituality Select quotations from the book:

Select quotations from the book:

it describes life in what was once the United States and is now called the Republic of Gilead

At the center of it all stands Donald J

taken in at thirteen by her more worldly and less religious mother

the bass—are not simply heard in the head

Toni Morrison - Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination (Paperback) Spirituality Select quotations from the book:The Nobel Prize winning author now gives us a learned, stylish, and immensely persuasive work of literary criticism that promises to change the way we read American literature even as it opens a new chapter in the American dialogue on race. Toni Morrison's 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.