To be suddenly white : literary realism and racial passing /

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"Explores the challenges of subjective passing narratives written during the height of literary realism. Discusses racial and ethnic differences, assimilation, passing, and identity by comparing African-American narratives of James Johnson, Nella Larson, and George Schuyler and 'white'...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Belluscio, Steven J.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Columbia : University of Missouri Press, ©2006.
Temas:
American prose literature > African American authors > History and criticism.
American prose literature > Minority authors > History and criticism.
Minorities > United States > Biography > History and criticism.
African Americans > Biography > History and criticism.
Assimilation (Sociology) in literature.
Identity (Psychology) in literature.
African Americans in literature.
Passing (Identity) in literature.
Human skin color in literature.
Race awareness in literature.
Group identity in literature.
Ethnicity in literature.
Realism in literature.
Race in literature.
Autobiography.
Autobiographies as Topic.
Prose américaine > Auteurs noirs américains > Histoire et critique.
Prose américaine > Auteurs issus des minorités > Histoire et critique.
Minorités > États-Unis > Biographies > Histoire et critique.
Noirs américains > Biographies > Histoire et critique.
Assimilation (Sociologie) dans la littérature.
Identité (Psychologie) dans la littérature.
Noirs américains dans la littérature.
Passing (Identité) dans la littérature.
Couleur de la peau dans la littérature.
Conscience de race dans la littérature.
Identité collective dans la littérature.
Ethnicité dans la littérature.
Réalisme dans la littérature.
Race dans la littérature.
Autobiographie.
autobiography (genre)
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
African Americans > Biography
African Americans in literature
American prose literature > African American authors
American prose literature > Minority authors
Assimilation (Sociology) in literature
Autobiography
Ethnicity in literature
Group identity in literature
Human skin color in literature
Identity (Psychology) in literature
Minorities > Biography
Passing (Identity) in literature
Race awareness in literature
Race in literature
Realism in literature
Literatur
Ethnische Identität > Motiv
Rassenbeziehung (Motiv)
United States
USA
Schwärze
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Assimilation, whiteness, and realism
  • To pass or not to pass? William Dean Howells's and Frances E.W. Harper's "not very black" women
  • Race or nation? White ethnics upstream in the writing of Cautela, Cahan, D'Agostino, Lewisohn, and Ornitz
  • "To rise above this absurd drama that others have staged" : race critique and genre in Chesnutt, Johnson, and Schuyler
  • "As if I were dead" : passing into subjectivity in the writings of Ets, Antin, Yezierska, and Barolini
  • Women "caught between two allegiances" : the drive toward modernism in Chesnutt, White, Fauset, and Larsen.

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