Afro-realisms and the romances of race : rethinking blackness in the African American novel /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Daniels-Rauterkus, Melissa (Author)
Corporate Author:	ProQuest (Firm)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2020]
Subjects:	1800-1999 American fiction > African American authors > History and criticism. American fiction > White authors > History and criticism. American fiction > 19th century > History and criticism. American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism. African Americans in literature. Race relations in literature. Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:

Introduction: Race, Realism, and the Problem of Literary Classification
The Long Hangover: Mark Twain's Pudd'nhead Wilson and the Ghosts of Slavery
Reimagining the Tragic Mulatta in Frances E.W. Harper's Iola Leroy
Racial Fictions and the Cultural Work of Genre in Charles W. Chesnutt's The House behind the Cedars
The Limits of Literary Realism: Pauline Hopkins's Postracial Fantasy in Of One Blood
Epilogue: Rethinking Blackness.