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Race and White Identity in Southern Fiction : From Faulkner to Morrison /

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White southern writers are frequently associated with the racism of blackface minstrelsy in their representations of African American characters, however, this book makes visible the ways in which southern novelists repeatedly imagine their white characters as in some sense fundamentally black.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Duvall, John N. (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
Subjects:
Literature.
Cultural Anthropology.
Cultural Theory.
Literary Theory.
North American Literature.
Social Anthropology.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
Culture > Study and teaching.
Ethnology.
Literature > Philosophy.
Literature, Modern > 20th century.
America > Literatures.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:White southern writers are frequently associated with the racism of blackface minstrelsy in their representations of African American characters, however, this book makes visible the ways in which southern novelists repeatedly imagine their white characters as in some sense fundamentally black.
Item Description:Electronic resource.
Physical Description:1 online resource (XIX, 194 pages)
ISBN:9780230611825
DOI:10.1057/9780230611825