![]() Black characters in classic American novels, she maintains, have been as marginalized as their real-life counterparts. Morrison invites literary scholars to carry on her generous task of making the black experience resonant for all Americans. "Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination" was first presented as a series of lectures at Harvard University. Though it is "not a story to pass on," she offers everyone - not just those injured - the chance to feel the pain, the injustice and the need for healing. Morrison restores to the collective memory a particular strand of its emotive past, turning a story of former slaves into what amounts to a national epic. ![]() The fact that she speaks as a woman and a black only enhances her ability to speak as an American, for the path to a common voice nowadays runs through the partisan. TONI MORRISON is both a great novelist and the closest thing the country has to a national writer. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. PLAYING IN THE DARK Whiteness and the Literary Imagination.
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