Abandoning the Black hero [electronic resource] : sympathy and privacy in the postwar African American white-life novel / John C. Charles.

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.

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