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Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination
by MORRISON, Toni
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- first
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- ISBN 10
- 0674673778
- ISBN 13
- 9780674673779
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About This Item
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1992. First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 91 pages. A collection of three essays that were originally lectures at Harvard. Morrison wrote the acclaimed "Song of Solomon" and "Beloved and was the winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize in Literature. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.
Synopsis
Toni Morrison was born in Lorain, Ohio. She is Robert E. Goheen Professor, Council of the Humanities, Princeton University. She is the author of six novels: The Bluest Eye; Sula; Song of Solomon, which won the 1978 National Book Critics Award for fiction; Tar Baby; Beloved, which won the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for fiction; and Jazz. Her most recent novel since winning the Nobel Prize 1993 is Paradise (1998).
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- Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 182123
- Title
- Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination
- Author
- MORRISON, Toni
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0674673778
- ISBN 13
- 9780674673779
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Place of Publication
- Cambridge, MA
- Date Published
- 1992
- Keywords
- Essays
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