num_pages: 178
description: In a major contribution to the study of race in American literature, Kenneth W. Warren argues that late-nineteenth-century literary realism was shaped by and in turn helped to shape post-Civil War racial politics. Taking up a variety of novelists, including Henry James and William Dean Howells, he shows that even works not directly concerned with race were instrumental in the return after reconstruction to a racially segregated society.
language: English
title: Black and White Strangers: Race and American Literary Realism
titlecomplete: Black and White Strangers: Race and American Literary Realism (Black Literature and Culture)
ratings_count: 3
publisher: University of Chicago Press