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as they fight for a country in which their dreams can become a reality

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

PLAYING IN THE DARK: WHITENESS AND THE LITERARY IMAGINATION Greco-Roman Myths including Stokely Carmichael and HueyThe 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.