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Playing in the Dark by Toni Morrison...
...Alissi 13 306 1 2 3 7 .143 0 2 2 Rachel Burke 14 664 2 0 2 13 .154 0 0 0 Margot McAnaney 14 563 1 0 1 2.500 1 0 1 Genevieve Chelius 9 164 1 0 0 3 .333 0 0 0 Kelly Morrison 6 117 0 0 0 2.000 0 0 0 Alyson Meranze 5 75 0 0 0 6 . 000 0 0 0 Cris Paglinauan 3 21 0 0 0 1.000 0 0 0 Harvard 14 -- 153 48 201388 .394 60 21 81 Opponent...
Perhaps. It seems to me that his defense of canonization makes the debate simply an academic one among scholars who will use their own subjective criteria to determine what is "better." Bloom and his cronies will always decide Shakespeare and Austen are "better" than Kerouac and Toni Morrison...
THIS NOVEL, TONI MORRISON'S sixth, takes only its first five sentences to disclose the central plot. Within a few more pages, most of the details have been provided. The setting is Harlem, the year 1926. Joe Trace, 50, shoots and kills Dorcas Manfred, the teenage girl with whom he has been having a clandestine affair. When Joe's wife Violet, also 50, hears what has happened, she goes to Dorcas' funeral and takes a butcher knife to the dead girl's face...
Many of these interludes are enchanting. Morrison has few living peers at evoking both the particulars and the sensuousness of scenes, whether they be the bloom of an unexpectedly lush cotton crop or the arrival of spring on city streets: "What can beat bricks warming up in the sun? The return of awnings. The removal of blankets from horses' backs." Even her ventures into the mystical come furnished with details: "The music the world makes, familiar to fishermen and shepherds, woodsmen have also heard. It hypnotizes mammals. Bucks raise their heads and gophers freeze...