PLAYING IN THE DARK: WHITENESS AND THE LITERARY IMAGINATION Greco-Roman Myths Slavery helped finance the Industrial

Slavery helped finance the Industrial Revolution in England

Illustrated edition (October 1

Toldson uses data analysis

and so many more to answer questions about vital topics affecting our nation today

ISBN-10 : 0393318133

PLAYING IN THE DARK: WHITENESS AND THE LITERARY IMAGINATION Greco-Roman Myths Slavery helped finance the IndustrialThe Nobel Prize winning author now gives us a learned, stylish, and immensely persuasive work of literary criticism that promises to change the way we read American literature even as it opens a new chapter in the American dialogue on race. Toni Morrison's 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.