...unacknowledged presence shapes the texture of canonized literature. If "Africanism is the vehicle by which the American self knows itself as not enslaved, but...accident of evolution, but a progressive fulfillment of destiny" (Morrison, 52). in short, if a negatively valued Africanism enables the construction of a...

...needs to be denied. As Morrison puts it: Africanism is the vehicle by which the American self itself knows itself as not enslaved, but free; not repulsive,...accident of evolution, but a progressive fulfillment of destiny. (52) The coherence and self-definition of American literature is achieved at the expense of...

...the Triple Lens of Black Feminist Spectatorship D. Sovini Madison Africanism is the %'ehicle by which the American self knows itself as not enslaved, but...desirable; not helpless, but licensed and powerful; not a blind accident of evolution, but a progressive fulfillment of destiny. — Toni Morrison Black women...

...plays a crucial role in 1white1 writers' sense of Americanness: Africanism is the vehicle by which the American self knows itself as not enslaved, but...accident of evolution, but a progressive fulfillment of destiny. 1Morrison 1992,52l As we have seen throughout this study, women, Jews, and Muslims could play...

...darkness, otherness, alarm and desire that is uniquely American"23 and that serves as "the vehicle by which the American self knows itself as not enslaved, but...accident of evolution, but a progressive fulfillment of destiny."26 Dan Quayle's speech on Los Angeles provides a plethora of examples of whiteness universalizing...

...must never allow ourselves to fall that low. . . ,24 Toni Morrison: Africanism is the vehicle by which the American self knows itself as not enslaved, but...accident of evolution, but a progressive fulfillment of destiny.25 By the latter part of the seventeenth century, the colonists would have in place a sort...

...Black "inferiority." As Toni Morrison has pointed out, it is by imagining blackness that whiteness "knows itself as not enslaved, but free, not repulsive, but desirable, not helpless, but licensed and powerful."42 Rather than suggesting a radical new way of seeing or attempting to create a new narrative...

...default, indirectly control the dark others. In Morrison's words: "Africanism is the vehicle by which the American self knows itself as not enslaved, but...accident of evolution, but a progressive fulfillment of destiny" (52). In sum people of Color are the experimentation ground upon which real lives get hurt,...

..."concept of the American self was [...] bound to Africanism"40: Africanism is the vehicle by which the American self knows itself as not enslaved, but...accident of evolution, but a progressive fulfillment of destiny.41 It is exactly in this fashion that Golden Gray's superior identity has been established...

...[New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1987], 50). 33. Morrison declares: "Africanism is the vehicle by which the American self knows itself as not enslaved, but...accident of evolution, but a progressive fulfillment of destiny" (Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination, William E. Massey Lectures in...