Race and White Identity in Southern Fiction
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.
| Autor: | Duvall, J. |
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| ISBN: | 9781403983879 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Seitenzahl: | 194 |
| Produktart: | Gebunden |
| Verlag: | Palgrave Macmillan US |
| Veröffentlicht: | 01.07.2008 |
| Untertitel: | From Faulkner to Morrison |
| Schlagworte: | America William Faulkner culture fiction identity |
JOHN N. DUVALL is Professor of English at Purdue University, USA. He is author of Faulkner's Marginal Couple: Invisible Outlaw , and Unspeakable Communities , The Identifying Fictions of Toni Morrison: Modernist Authenticity and Postmodern Blackness , and editor or co-editor of Modern Fiction Studies , Productive Postmodernism: Consuming Histories and Cultural Studies , Faulkner and Postmodernism , Approaches to Teaching DeLillo's White Noise , and the Cambridge Companion to Don DeLillo .