Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination Public Policy Cherry and New York Times

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One Hundred Years of Solitude remains a dazzling and original achievement by the masterful Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination Public Policy Cherry and New York TimesBy Toni Morrison An immensely persuasive work of literary criticism that opens a new chapter in the American dialogue on raceand promises to change the way we read American literaturefrom the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner Morrison shows how much the themes of freedom and individualism, manhood and innocence, depended on the existence of a black population that was manifestly unfree and that came to serve white authors as embodiments of their own fears