Abandoning the Black hero [electronic resource] : sympathy and privacy in the postwar African American white-life novel / John C. Charles.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Charles, John C., 1968-
Language:English
Published: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2013.
Subjects:
American fiction > African American authors > History and criticism.
American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
African Americans > Intellectual life > 20th century.
White people in literature.
Race in literature.
Online Access:
ProQuest Ebook Central - Academic Complete: 2012 (Ebook Central @ Proquest)
EBSCO eBooks: 2012 (EBSCO)
eBook Academic Collection (EBSCOhost) – North America: 2012 (EBSCO)
Variant Title:
Abandoning the Black Hero: Sympathy and Privacy in the Postwar African American White-Life Novel
Format: Electronic eBook
Contents:
  • "I'm regarded fatally as a Negro writer" : mid-twentieth century racial discourse and the rise of the white-life novel
  • The home and the street: Ann Petry's "rage for privacy"
  • White masks and queer prisons
  • Sympathy for the master : reforming southern white manhood in Frank Yerby's The Foxes of Harrow
  • Talk about the South : unspeakable things unspoken in Zora Neale Hurston's Seraph on the Suwanee
  • The unfinished project of western modernity : savage holiday, moral slaves, and the problem of freedom in Cold War America.