Toni Morrison. Playing in the Dark. First edition. Signed by the author.
Morrison, Toni (1931-2019). Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1992. First edition. Fine in dustwrapper.
Signed by the author.
In 1990, three years before Morrison won the Nobel Prize, she delivered the William E. Massey Sr. Lectures in the History of American Civilization. They are collected in this volume, offering a challenging perspective on some of the most celebrated names in the American canon, from Hawthorne to Hemingway.
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