The souls of white folk
Watson, Veronica T.
The souls of white folk African American writers theorize whiteness / [electronic resource] : Veronica T. Watson. - Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2013. - 1 online resource (xii, 170 pages ) - Margaret Walker Alexander series in African American studies .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 143-165) and index.
Naming: The literature of white estrangement -- "A form of insanity which overtakes white men": W.E.B. du Bois, Charles Chesnutt, and the specter of white double consciousness -- "Shaping herself into a dutiful wife": demythologizing white femininity and the white home in Frank Yerby's The foxes of harrow and Zora Neale Hurston's Seraph on the Suwanee -- "Occupied territory": mapping the spatial geographies of white identity and violence -- Conclusion: "No white and legal heir": the responsibility of whiteness in a multiracial world.
9781621039808 1621039803
Whites in literature.
Whites--Race identity--In literature.
American literature--History and criticism.--19th century
American literature--History and criticism.--19th century
American literature--African American authors--History and criticism.
Electronic books.
PS153.N5 / W355 2013
810.9/896073
The souls of white folk African American writers theorize whiteness / [electronic resource] : Veronica T. Watson. - Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2013. - 1 online resource (xii, 170 pages ) - Margaret Walker Alexander series in African American studies .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 143-165) and index.
Naming: The literature of white estrangement -- "A form of insanity which overtakes white men": W.E.B. du Bois, Charles Chesnutt, and the specter of white double consciousness -- "Shaping herself into a dutiful wife": demythologizing white femininity and the white home in Frank Yerby's The foxes of harrow and Zora Neale Hurston's Seraph on the Suwanee -- "Occupied territory": mapping the spatial geographies of white identity and violence -- Conclusion: "No white and legal heir": the responsibility of whiteness in a multiracial world.
9781621039808 1621039803
Whites in literature.
Whites--Race identity--In literature.
American literature--History and criticism.--19th century
American literature--History and criticism.--19th century
American literature--African American authors--History and criticism.
Electronic books.
PS153.N5 / W355 2013
810.9/896073