Book #59 of 2023: Paradise by Toni Morrison A complex work that weaves back and forward in time and around a large cast of people associated with the fictional all-Black rural township of Ruby, Oklahoma. The structure of this book reminds me somewhat of Catch-22, but with less of a central protagonist, a more difficult …
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Book Review: Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination by Toni Morrison
Book #196 of 2020: Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination by Toni Morrison This 1992 book is a short but super interesting piece of literary criticism, adapted from a series of lectures given by author Toni Morrison several years before. She argues for viewing classic works by white American writers through a …
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