An edition of Abandoning the Black hero (2012)

Abandoning the Black hero

sympathy and privacy in the postwar African American white-life novel

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An edition of Abandoning the Black hero (2012)

Abandoning the Black hero

sympathy and privacy in the postwar African American white-life novel

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Language
English
Pages
263

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Table of Contents

"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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
New Brunswick, N.J

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813/.5409896073
Library of Congress
PS374.N4 C47 2012, PS374.N4C47 2012, PS374.N4 C47 2013

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
263

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL25223579M
ISBN 13
9780813554334, 9780813554327, 9780813554341
LCCN
2012005168
OCLC/WorldCat
778314671

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL16531999W

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