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Toni Morrison's Argument With The Other: Irony, Metaphor, And Whiteness, Roy Francis Smith

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Black people, and blackness as a general symbol, has traditionally occupied a marginal or disadvantaged position in American literature, as opposed to representations of white people and whitness as a general symbol. Morrison's fiction in effect reverses this representation and positions white people in the position of the Other.