How Black writers deal with whiteness : characterization through deconstructing color /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Demirtürk, Emine Lâle
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Lewiston : Edwin Mellen Press, [2008]
Subjects:	American fiction > African American authors > History and criticism. American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism. Race awareness in literature. Whites in literature.

Table of Contents:

Mapping the terrain of whiteness : Richard Wright's Savage holiday
Reading the contours of dynamic whiteness in African American women's neo-slave narratives
'Passing for white' and the politics of location : negotiating the boundaries of whiteness
Dismantling the discourse of desire for whiteness in Toni Morrison's The bluest eye
Postcolonial reflections on the discourse of whiteness : Paule Marshall's The chosen place, the timeless people
Racialized spatial zones in the metropolitan city : Louise Meriwether's Daddy was a number runner
Alternative conceptions of (post)modern urban whiteness : resisting and revisioning the white city in Colson Whitehead's The intuitionist.