...ways in which unacknowledged presence shapes the texture of canonized literature. If "Africanism is the vehicle by which the American self knows itself...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...

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

...so well serve as the not-me, serve as the vehicle, the "playground," the "staging ground and arena" by which "the American self knows itself as not enslaved, but free . . . not helpless but licensed and powerful . . . not a blind accident of evolution but a progressive fulfillment...

...fall beneath him. We must never allow ourselves to fall that low. . . ,24 Toni Morrison: Africanism is the vehicle by which the American self knows itself...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...

...literature, namely that the "concept of the American self was [...] bound to Africanism"40: Africanism is the vehicle by which the American self knows itself...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...

...the "Racial" Self [New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1987], 50). 33. Morrison declares: "Africanism is the vehicle by which the American self knows itself...accident of evolution, but a progressive fulfillment of destiny" (Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination, William E. Massey Lectures in...

..."help" save and, by default, indirectly control the dark others. In Morrison's words: "Africanism is the vehicle by which the American self knows itself...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,...

..."Africanist character" has been used i^^t^^t^^tz=^t^^t^^t^^t^^t^^t^^t^^t^^ as "surrogate and enahler," "the vehicle by which the American self knows itself...desirable; not helpless, but licensed and powerful." ' More recently and specifically, she has focused her anger on the requirement that black persons signify...