Abandoning the Black hero
Charles, John C., 1968-
Abandoning the Black hero sympathy and privacy in the postwar African American white-life novel / [electronic resource] : John C. Charles. - New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, 2012. - 1 online resource (288 p.) - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"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.
9780813554341 0813554349
Race in literature.
Whites in literature.
African Americans--Intellectual life--20th century.
American fiction--History and criticism.--20th century
American fiction--African American authors--History and criticism.
Electronic books.
PS374.N4 / C47 2012
813/.5409896073
Abandoning the Black hero sympathy and privacy in the postwar African American white-life novel / [electronic resource] : John C. Charles. - New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, 2012. - 1 online resource (288 p.) - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"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.
9780813554341 0813554349
Race in literature.
Whites in literature.
African Americans--Intellectual life--20th century.
American fiction--History and criticism.--20th century
American fiction--African American authors--History and criticism.
Electronic books.
PS374.N4 / C47 2012
813/.5409896073