The souls of white folk : African American writers theorize whiteness /

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This study considers the substantial body of African American writing that critiques whiteness as social construction and racial identity. Arguing against the prevailing approach to these texts that says African American writers retreated from issues of "race" when they wrote about whitene...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Watson, Veronica T.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2013.
Colección:Margaret Walker Alexander series in African American studies.
Temas:
1800-1899
American literature > African American authors > History and criticism.
American literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
White people > Race identity > In literature.
White people in literature.
Littérature américaine > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > African American Studies.
American literature.
American literature > African American authors.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Naming : The literature of white estrangement
  • "A form of insanity which overtakes white men" : W.E.B. du Bois, Charles Chesnutt, and the specter of white double consciousness
  • "Shaping herself into a dutiful wife" : demythologizing white femininity and the white home in Frank Yerby's The foxes of harrow and Zora Neale Hurston's Seraph on the Suwanee
  • "Occupied territory" : mapping the spatial geographies of white identity and violence
  • Conclusion : "No white and legal heir" : the responsibility of whiteness in a multiracial world.

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