Unmasking the Racial Mythos of “Whiteness” in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Through Morrison’s Critical Lens
“The readers of virtually all of American fiction have been positioned as white,” Toni Morrison observes in her groundbreaking work of literary criticism, Playing in the Dark (xii). In this pivotal text, Morrison contends that the canon of American literature is permeated by an “Africanist presence” – a constellation of racialized tropes, images, and assumptions ... Read More
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