Race and white identity in southern fiction : from Faulkner to Morrison
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Race and white identity in southern fiction : from Faulkner to Morrison
Palgrave Macmillan, 2012
- : pbk
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First published in hardcover: New York : Palgrave Macmillan , 2008
Includes bibliographical references (p. [169]-187) and index
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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.
Table of Contents
White Face, Black Culture Artificial Niggers, White Homelessness, and Diaspora Consciousness William Faulkner, Whiteface, and Black Identity Flannery O'Connor, (G)race, and Colored Identity John Barth, Blackface, and Invisible Identity Dorothy Allison, "Nigger Trash" and Miscegenated Identity African American Fiction and the Limits of Whiteface
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