Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination

Title: Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination

Author: Toni Morrison

Publisher: Vintage; Reprint edition

Publication Year: 1993

ISBN:  9780679745426

Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination is a 1992 work of literary criticism by Toni Morrison. In it she develops a reading of major white American authors and traces the way their perceptions of blackness gave defining shape to their works, and thus to the American literary canon.