Playing in the Dark
The contemplation of this black presence is central to any understanding of our national literature and should not be permitted to hover at the margins of the literary imagination.
Toni Morrison • Playing in the Dark
accountability.
Toni Morrison • Playing in the Dark
literary “whiteness.” What is it for?
Toni Morrison • Playing in the Dark
was interested, as I had been for a long time, in the way black people ignite critical moments of discovery or change or emphasis in literature not written by them.
Toni Morrison • Playing in the Dark
When does racial “unconsciousness” or awareness of race enrich interpretive language, and when does it impoverish it? What
Toni Morrison • Playing in the Dark
how is “literary whiteness” and “literary blackness” made, and what is the consequence of that construction?
Toni Morrison • Playing in the Dark
Readers and writers both struggle to interpret and perform within a common language shareable imaginative worlds.
Toni Morrison • Playing in the Dark
wholly new, never before seen, is followed, almost immediately, by the sense that it was always there,
Toni Morrison • Playing in the Dark
record them so as to prevent their repetition