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020 _a9781621039808
020 _a1621039803
020 _z9781617038891 (cloth : alk. paper)
040 _aMdBmJHUP
_cMdBmJHUP
050 0 0 _aPS153.N5
_bW355 2013
082 0 0 _a810.9/896073
_223
100 1 _aWatson, Veronica T.
245 1 4 _aThe souls of white folk
_h[electronic resource] :
_bAfrican American writers theorize whiteness /
_cVeronica T. Watson.
260 _aJackson :
_bUniversity Press of Mississippi,
_c2013.
_e(Baltimore, Md. :
_fProject MUSE,
_g2015)
300 _a1 online resource (xii, 170 pages )
490 0 _aMargaret Walker Alexander series in African American studies
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 143-165) and index.
505 0 _aNaming: 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.
588 _aDescription based on print version record.
650 0 _aWhites in literature.
650 0 _aWhites
_xRace identity
_xIn literature.
650 0 _aAmerican literature
_y19th century
_xHistory and criticism.
650 0 _aAmerican literature
_y19th century
_xHistory and criticism.
650 0 _aAmerican literature
_xAfrican American authors
_xHistory and criticism.
655 7 _aElectronic books.
_2local
710 2 _aProject Muse.
856 4 0 _zFull text available:
_uhttps://muse.jhu.edu/books/9781621039808/
942 _2Dewey Decimal Classification
_ceBooks
999 _c33137
_d33137