TY  - GEN
T1  - Abandoning the Black Hero : Sympathy and Privacy in the Postwar African American White-Life Novel.
A1  - Charles, John C.
LA  - English
PP  - New Brunswick, NJ
PB  - Rutgers University Press
YR  - 2012
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_ocn818818031
AB  - Abandoning the Black Hero examines the motivations that led certain African American authors in mid-twentieth century to shift from writing protest novels about racial injustice to novels focusing primarily, if not exclusively on whites, or white-life novels. These fascinating works have been understudied despite having been written by such defining figures as Richard Wright, Zora Neale Hurston, James Baldwin, Ann Petry, and Chester Himes, as well as lesser known but formerly best-selling auth.
OP  - 278
CN  - PS374.N4 C47 2012eb
SN  - 9780813554341
SN  - 0813554349
SN  - 1283684071
SN  - 9781283684071
SN  - 9780813554334
SN  - 0813554330
SN  - 9780813554327
SN  - 0813554322
KW  - American fiction : African American authors : History and criticism.
KW  - American fiction : 20th century : History and criticism.
KW  - African Americans : Intellectual life : 20th century.
KW  - White people in literature.
KW  - Race in literature.
KW  - Roman américain : Auteurs noirs américains : Histoire et critique.
KW  - Roman américain : 20e siècle : Histoire et critique.
KW  - Noirs américains : Vie intellectuelle : 20e siècle.
KW  - Race dans la littérature.
KW  - Personnes blanches dans la littérature.
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM : American : General.
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE : Ethnic Studies : African American Studies.
KW  - African Americans : Intellectual life
KW  - American fiction
KW  - American fiction : African American authors
KW  - Race in literature
KW  - White people in literature
KW  - Roman
KW  - Schwarze
KW  - Schriftsteller
KW  - Weiße : Motiv
KW  - 1900-1999
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc.
ER  -