Literary Criticism1992
Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination
Toni MorrisonThemes:
Overview
Region
Diaspora
USA
Era
Contemporary
Language
English
Genre
Literary Criticism
About This Work
Morrison's landmark essays examining how Black presence shaped the white American literary imagination — how canonical American authors like Poe, Cather, and Hemingway wrote about and around Blackness.
Literary Significance
Morrison's most influential work of criticism; transformed how the American literary canon is read