Playing in the Dark
each note would be important and would contain within itself the essence of the whole.
Toni Morrison • Playing in the Dark
learning about these people.
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
Why should a young country
Toni Morrison • Playing in the Dark
Neither blackness nor “people of color” stimulates in me notions of excessive, limitless love, anarchy, or routine dread.
Toni Morrison • Playing in the Dark
In these readings, a sense that the text has appeared to be
Toni Morrison • Playing in the Dark
how knowledge is transformed from invasion and conquest to revelation and choice; what ignites and informs the literary imagination, and what forces help establish the parameters of criticism.
Toni Morrison • Playing in the Dark
in a wholly racialized society, there is no escape from racially inflected language,
Toni Morrison • Playing in the Dark
we should not be surprised that the Enlightenment could accommodate slavery; we should be surprised if it had not.