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Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination Autograph "The most entertaining and honestToni 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. She shows how much the themes of freedom, and individualism, manhood and innocence, depended on the existence of a black population that was manifestly unfree and that came to serve white wuthors as embodiments of their own fears and