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Contents
Cover
About the Author
Also by Toni Morrison
Title Page
Copyright
Playing in the Dark
PrefaceONEBlack Matters
TWORomancing the Shadow
THREEDisturbing Nurses and the Kindness of Sharks
Acclaim for TONI MORRISON’S
Playing in the Dark
“A profound redefinition of American cultural identity…. Her method of reading…inevitably revises what American literature means today.”
—Philadelphia Inquirer
“Morrison brings the indomitable spirit of her fiction to her feelings about literature…. She hits the center of an unspoken truth about American fiction and criticism—about what we take for granted, and what we ignore, in the process.”
—Boston Sunday Globe
“A compelling dissection of U.S. fiction…To recognize the black presence in white fiction as offering both threat and reassurance permits Morrison to challenge some of the most widely accepted generalizations about our literary history…. Morrison’s individual readings are not just convincing, they are alarming.”
—San Francisco Chronicle
“[Toni Morrison’s] argument is lucid and eloquent; its paradigm-shattering implications are profound. This brilliant and provocative book raises questions that have never been asked about American literature and provides some compelling models for how we might go about answering them. Morrison succeeds in mapping a new critical geography for American literary study.”
—Journal of American History
“Morrison…hopes to show the richness of investigation still available in terrain long thought to have been exhausted in earlier readings by critics unconscious of their own racialist agenda…. An exuberant exercise, conducted by a writer…who knows that her own work makes steady inroads on the unspeakable.”
—Los Angeles Times
“Essential reading for anyone interested in American literature and in the ways in which racial thinking is everywhere embedded in cultural production. Morrison is vividly sketching a new way to read American literature and enabling us to see the hard racial truths that it contains. Her argument is daring, profound and painful.”
—In These Times
“As in her novels…the writing is meticulously crafted, each word seemingly weighed and measured for its heft and impact…. She has ventured down an avenue of critical inquiry too long neglected.”
—The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
“A magisterial jeremiad against literary racism…Playing in the Dark is a wrenching critical enterprise.”
—Express Books
“Brings to mind critical works by other literary artists, such as T. S. Eliot’s essay ............

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