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

Author/creator Charles, John C., 1968-
Format Electronic
Publication InfoNew Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press,
Descriptionxi, 263 p. ; 24 cm.
Supplemental ContentFull text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
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.

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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [241]-256) and index.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2012005168
ISBN9780813554334 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN0813554330 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN9780813554327 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN9780813554341 (e-book)

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