24 - A Disrupting Darkness: Toni Morrison's Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination
Books of Some Substance
English - May 30, 2018 01:38 - 26 minutes - 24.3 MB - ★★★★ - 61 ratingsBooks Arts Society & Culture Philosophy bulgakov classics bellow book books fiction hesse hurston kawabata lewis Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Previous Episode: 23 - No, I Wouldn't Call It That: Heinrich Böll's The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum
Next Episode: 25 - Fly Uncomfortably: Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon
In preparation for next month's reading of Song of Solomon, Nick is joined by bookclub mainstays Frida and Eric to discuss Toni Morisson's key work of literary criticism Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination.
Listen along as they discuss otherness, reading race, the inherently political, and their own confrontation with ways in which we read.