
Playing in the Dark

how is “literary whiteness” and “literary blackness” made, and what is the consequence of that construction?
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The “one precise, unique note, tracing a sound
Toni Morrison • Playing in the Dark
Writing and reading are not all that distinct for a writer.
Toni Morrison • Playing in the Dark
rights of man,
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The fabrication of
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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
devote its talents to reproducing in its own literature the typology of diabolism it wanted to leave behind?
Toni Morrison • 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
record them so as to prevent their repetition