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Race and White Identity in Southern Fiction: From Faulkner to Morrison

Race and White Identity in Southern Fiction: From Faulkner to Morrison

Description

White southern writers are frequently associated with the racism of blackface minstrelsy in their representations of African American characters, however, this book makes visible the ways in which southern novelists repeatedly imagine their white characters as in some sense fundamentally black.

Keywords

AMERICAN FICTION_HISTORY AND CRITICISM_20TH CENTURYETHNICITY IN LITERATURERACE RELATIONS IN LITERATURELITERATURE AND SOCIETYSOUTHERN STATES_INTELLECTUAL LIFE

2008Book

Author(s)John N. Duvall

PublisherPalgrave Macmillan

ISBN9781403983879

LanguageEnglish

SpringerLink Book

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