REVEALING SOME INSIGHTS ABOUT THE CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW WHITE AMERICAN IN THE AMERICAN LITERATURE THROUGH ‘PLAYING IN THE DARK: WHITENESS AND THE LITERARY IMAGINATION‘ BY TONI MORRISON: A NEW CRITICISM READING

Abstract

<p>The melting-pot character of the American culture encloses and displays waves of thoughts, ideas, and beliefs among which are some subtle motivations for selective propaganda and indescribable underground literary orientations. The dynamic power in the American literary world infants a highly segregationist lead to inventing at a given time a new white American. In her fictional work ‘Playing in the Dark’, Toni Morrison sheds new and personal light on American fiction and more particularly on the way through which the white man’s identity has been formatted or shaped in the course of time with suspected negligence about Africanism. New criticism literary approach serves as a scientific panacea to decode and denote the ups and downs of that new drive of American literary history, in the shadows of blackness.</p><p> </p><p><strong> Article visualizations:</strong></p><p><img src="/-counters-/edu_01/0209/a.php" alt="Hit counter" /></p>