Volume 39, Number 19 · November 19, 1992
Life Studies
By Michael Wood
Jazz
by Toni Morrison
Knopf, 229 pp., $21.00
Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination
by Toni Morrison
Harvard University Press, 91 pp., $14.95
The facts are simple and brutal, you can read them any day in the newspapers. If you read them and if you feel they are published for you. The suggestion that news in America is often just white news, or news for whites, occurs again and again in Toni Morrison's work, nowhere more strongly than in her novel Beloved (1987), where a former slave knows that the mere presence of a black face in a paper is the sign not only of disaster but of more than customary horror:
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