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Toni Morrison
Researcher at University of Texas at Austin
Publications - 49
Citations - 4471
Toni Morrison is an academic researcher from University of Texas at Austin. The author has contributed to research in topics: Narrative & Racism. The author has an hindex of 19, co-authored 49 publications receiving 4283 citations.
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Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination
TL;DR: Morrison as discussed by the authors argues that race has become a metaphor, a way of referring to forces, events, and forms of social decay, economic division, and human panic, and argues that individualism, masculinity, the insistence upon innocence coupled to an obsession with figurations of death and hell are responses to a dark and abiding Africanist presence.
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Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination.
Trudier Harris,Toni Morrison +1 more
TL;DR: Morrison as mentioned in this paper argues that race has become a metaphor, a way of referring to forces, events, and forms of social decay, economic division, and human panic, and argues that individualism, masculinity, the insistence upon innocence coupled to an obsession with figurations of death and hell are responses to a dark and abiding Africanist presence.
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Conversations with Toni Morrison
TL;DR: Morrison as mentioned in this paper describes herself as an African-American woman writer who has shared space in her creative life for her career in publishing, in teaching, and in being a single parent.