Playing in the Dark
we should not be surprised that the Enlightenment could accommodate slavery; we should be surprised if it had not.
Toni Morrison • Playing in the Dark
Nothing highlighted freedom—if it did not in fact create it—like slavery.
Toni Morrison • Playing in the Dark
inevitably yoked to Africanism.
Toni Morrison • Playing in the Dark
rights of man,
Toni Morrison • Playing in the Dark
Romance, an exploration of anxiety imported from the shadows of European culture, made possible the sometimes safe and other times risky embrace of quite specific, understandably human, fears:
Toni Morrison • Playing in the Dark
slave population, it could be and was assumed, offered itself up as surrogate selves for meditation on problems of human freedom, its lure and its elusiveness.
Toni Morrison • Playing in the Dark
devote its talents to reproducing in its own literature the typology of diabolism it wanted to leave behind?
Toni Morrison • Playing in the Dark
record them so as to prevent their repetition
Toni Morrison • Playing in the Dark
Why should a young country