How Black writers deal with whiteness
Subtitle: characterization through deconstructing color
By: Emine Lale Demirturk ; with a foreword by Wilfred D. Samuels.
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Lewiston, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9780773450738
Subjects: American fiction -- African American authors -- History and criticism; American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Race awareness in literature; Whites in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.   ) and index.
Table of contents: title: Mapping the terrain of whiteness : Richard Wright's Savage holiday; title: Reading the contours of dynamic whiteness in African American women's neo-slave narratives; title: Passing for white and the politics of location : negotiating the boundaries of whiteness; title: Dismantling the discourse of desire for whiteness in Toni Morrison's The bluest eye; title: Postcolonial reflections on the discourse of whiteness : Paule Marshall's The chosen place, the timeless people; title: Racialized spatial zones in the metropolitan city : Louise Meriwether's Daddy was a number runner; title: Alternative conceptions of (post)modern urban whiteness : resisting and revisioning the white city in Colson Whitehead's The intuitionist.