The souls of white folk [electronic resource] : African American writers theorize whiteness / Veronica T. Watson.
Material type: TextSeries: Margaret Walker Alexander series in African American studiesPublication details: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2013. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (xii, 170 pages )ISBN:- 9781621039808
- 1621039803
- 810.9/896073 23
- PS153.N5 W355 2013
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.
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