Abandoning the Black hero : sympathy and privacy in the postwar African American white-life novel /
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Format: | eBook |
Language: | English |
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New Brunswick, N.J. :
Rutgers University Press,
2012.
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Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- "I'm regarded fatally as a Negro writer": mid-twentieth century racial discourse and the rise of the white-life novel
- The home and the street: Ann Petry's "rage for privacy"
- White masks and queer prisons
- Sympathy for the master: reforming southern white manhood in Frank Yerby's The Foxes of Harrow
- Talk about the South: unspeakable things unspoken in Zora Neale Hurston's Seraph on the Suwanee
- The unfinished project of western modernity: savage holiday, moral slaves, and the problem of freedom in Cold War America.