TY - BOOK AU - Watson,Veronica T. ED - Project Muse. TI - The souls of white folk: African American writers theorize whiteness T2 - Margaret Walker Alexander series in African American studies SN - 9781621039808 AV - PS153.N5 W355 2013 U1 - 810.9/896073 23 PY - 2013/// CY - Jackson PB - University Press of Mississippi KW - Whites in literature KW - Whites KW - Race identity KW - In literature KW - American literature KW - 19th century KW - History and criticism KW - African American authors KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - 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 UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9781621039808/ ER -