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Toni Morrison Slays Moby Dick
About this essay What happens when Toni Morrison reads Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick through the history of American racial ideology? Drawing on Morrison’s 1988 lecture, “Unspeakable Things Unspoken,” this essay considers the relationship between whiteness, literary interpretation, and the American canon—and … Continue reading
Posted in Education & Teaching, Politics & Public Affairs
Tagged Aunt Jemima, Black Shadows and Through the White Looking Glass, book-review, books, Candace Owens, Clarence Thomas, Herman Melville, horror, James Baldwin, January 6th, Kamala Harris, Many Thousands Gone, Moby-Dick, reading, Toni Morrison, Uncle Tom, Unspeakable Things Unspoken: The African American Presence in American Literature, W. E. B. Du Bois, writing
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