Abandoning the Black Hero : Sympathy and Privacy in the Postwar African American White-Life Novel.
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 unders...
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New Brunswick, NJ :
Rutgers University Press,
2012.
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| On-line přístup: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt5hjcrh |
Obsah:
- Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1. "I'm Regarded Fatally as a Negro Writer":Mid-Twentieth-Century Racial Discourseand the Rise of the White-Life Novel; Chapter 2. The Home and the Street: Ann Petry's"Rage for Privacy"; Chapter 3. White Masks and Queer Prisons; Chapter 4. Sympathy for the Master: Reforming Southern White Manhood in Frank Yerby'sThe Foxes of Harrow; Chapter 5. Talk about the South: Unspeakable Things Unspoken in Zora Neale Hurston'sSeraph on the Suwanee.
- Chapter 6. The Unfinished Project of Western Modernity:Savage Holiday, Moral Slaves, and the Problemof Freedom in Cold War AmericaConclusion; Notes; Works Cited; Index; About the Author.