{"product_id":"playing-in-the-dark-isbn-9780679745426","title":"Playing in the Dark","description":"\u003cb\u003eNATIONAL BESTSELLER • An immensely persuasive work of literary criticism that opens a new chapter in the American dialogue on race—and \u003cb\u003epromises to change the way we read American literature\u003cb\u003e—\u003c\/b\u003efrom the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"[Morrison] boldly...reimagines and remaps the possibility of America.\"—\u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMorrison shows how much the themes of freedom and individualism, manhood and innocence, depended on the existence of a black population that was manifestly \u003ci\u003eunfree\u003c\/i\u003e--and that came to serve white authors as embodiments of their own fears and desires. According to the \u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e, Morrison \"reimagines and remaps the possibility of America.\" Her brilliant discussions of the \"Africanist\" presence in the fiction of Poe, Melville, Cather, and Hemingway leads to a dramatic reappraisal of the essential characteristics of our literary tradition. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWritten with the artistic vision that has earned the Nobel Prize-winning author a pre-eminent place in modern letters, \u003ci\u003ePlaying in the Dark\u003c\/i\u003e is an invaluable read for avid Morrison admirers as well as students, critics, and scholars of American literature.\"A profound redefinition of American cultural identity.\"--Philadelphia Inquirer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"By going for the American literary jugular...she places her arguments...at the very heart of contemporary public conversation about what it is to be authentically and originally American. [She] boldly...reimagines and remaps the possibility of America.\" \u003ci\u003e--Chicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Toni Morrison is the closest thing the country has to a national writer.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003eToni Morrison is the author of eleven novels, from \u003ci\u003eThe Bluest Eye\u003c\/i\u003e (1970) to \u003ci\u003eGod Help the Child\u003c\/i\u003e (2015). She received the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Pulitzer Prize, and in 1993 she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. She died in 2019.National Bestseller Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46303228002533,"sku":"NP9780679745426","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780679745426.jpg?v=1767734869","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/playing-in-the-dark-isbn-9780679745426","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}