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Playing in the white : black writers, white subjects /
The postwar period witnessed an outpouring of texts by African American writers focused almost exclusively on white characters. Almost every major mid 20th-century black writer published one of these anomalous texts. Controversial since their publication in the 1940s and 1950s, these novels have sin...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
[2015]
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| Colección: | Oxford studies in American literary history ;
9. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- ""Cover""; ""Playing in the White: Black Writers, White Subjects""; ""Copyright""; ""Dedication""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Playing in the White""; ""Introduction: IMAGINING THE SOULS OF WHITE FOLK""; ""The Origins and Development of White Life Novels""; ""The Blackness of White Life Novels""; ""1 Signifyin(g) Black and White Speech in Zora Neale Hurston�s Seraph on the Suwanee""; ""Black Speech in White Mouths""; ""Language and Gender: Signifyin(g) and Singularity""; ""Porches: The Space of Race""
- ""2 Race and the “Universal Problem� of Freedom in Richard Wright�s The Outsider and Savage Holiday""""Black and White Outsiders""; ""Black and White Savagery""; ""The Safe Prison of Whiteness""; ""The Charade of Race""; ""Erskine and the Newspaper�s Master Narrative""; ""Marriage and Murder""; ""3 Whiteness and Narrative Authority in Ann Petry�s Country Place""; ""Country Place�s “Medium�""; ""Doc Fraser and the Weasel""; ""The Limits of Doc Fraser�s Narrative""; ""Whiteness, Femininity, and Hollywood Narratives""; ""Neola and the Future of Lennox""
- ""4 CONJURING THE AFRICANIST PRESENCE: BLACKNESS IN JAMES BALDWIN�S GIOVANNI�S ROOM""""Readings in Black and White""; ""The Moral Choice of Whiteness""; ""Images of Black and White""; ""The Blackness of Male Rape""; ""5 William Melvin Kelley�s A Different Drummer and the Silence of Blackness""; ""The Myth of the African""; ""The Self-Interests of Whiteness""; ""Bradshaw and the Limits of Language""; ""Women and Self-Reliance""; ""The Historical Omissions of Whiteness""; ""Whiteness without Blackness""; ""Conclusion: POST-WHITENESS AND TWENTY-FIRST-CENTURY AMERICAN LITERATURE""