Passing and the rise of the African American novel
By: M. Giulia Fabi.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 187
Subjects: American fiction -- African American authors -- History and criticism; African Americans -- Intellectual life; Racially mixed people in literature; Passing (Identity) in literature; African Americans in literature; Group identity in literature; Race awareness in literature; Utopias in literature; Race in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [165]-181) and index.
Table of contents: title: The mark without : subversive mulattas and mulattos in the fiction of William Wells Brown and Frank J. Webb; title: Race travel in turn-of-the-century African American utopian fiction; title: "New people" and invisible men in Charles W. Chesnutt's The house behind the cedars; title: The mark within : parody in James Weldon Johnson's The autobiography of an ex-colored man; title: Tres-passing in African American literary criticism.