Playing in the dark

Toni Morrison

earliest edition we have, 1992 Harvard University Press, 1992 91 pages

William E. Massey sr. lectures in the history of American civilization -- 1990

Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Toni Morrison brings the genius of a master writer to this personal inquiry into the significance of African-Americans in the American literary imagination. Her goal, she states at the outset, is to "put forth an argument for extending the study of American literature... draw a map, so to speak, of a critical geography and use that map to open as much space for discovery, intellectual...

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Editions we hold

Playing in the Dark edition · 2007 · Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group · 9780307388636
Playing in the Dark (Whiteness and the Literary Imagination) hardcover · 1998 · MacMillan · 112 pages
Im Dunkeln spielen edition · 1995 · Rowohlt Taschenbuch · 9783499137549
Playing in the dark edition · 1993 · Vintage Books · 91 pages
Playing in the dark edition · 1992 · Harvard University Press · 91 pages
Im Dunkeln spielen. Weiße Kultur und literarische Imagination hardcover · Rowohlt · 9783498043551

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