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020 _a9780813554341
020 _a0813554349
020 _z9780813554334 (hardcover : alk. paper)
020 _z9780813554327 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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050 0 0 _aPS374.N4
_bC47 2012
082 0 0 _a813/.5409896073
_223
100 1 _aCharles, John C.,
_d1968-
245 1 0 _aAbandoning the Black hero
_h[electronic resource] :
_bsympathy and privacy in the postwar African American white-life novel /
_cJohn C. Charles.
260 _aNew Brunswick, N.J. :
_bRutgers University Press,
_c2012.
_e(Baltimore, Md. :
_fProject MUSE,
_g2015)
300 _a1 online resource (288 p.)
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _a"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.
588 _aDescription based on print version record.
650 0 _aRace in literature.
650 0 _aWhites in literature.
650 0 _aAfrican Americans
_xIntellectual life
_y20th century.
650 0 _aAmerican fiction
_y20th century
_xHistory and criticism.
650 0 _aAmerican fiction
_xAfrican American authors
_xHistory and criticism.
655 7 _aElectronic books.
_2local
710 2 _aProject Muse.
830 0 _aUPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
856 4 0 _zFull text available:
_uhttps://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780813554341/
942 _2Dewey Decimal Classification
_ceBooks
999 _c35146
_d35146