Abandoning the Black hero
Subtitle: sympathy and privacy in the postwar African American white-life novel
By: John C. Charles
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New Brunswick, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 263
ISBN-13: 9780813554334; 9780813554327; 9780813554341
Subjects: Whites in literature; African American authors; Intellectual life; American fiction; History and criticism; African Americans; Race in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "I'm regarded fatally as a Negro writer": mid-twentieth century racial discourse and the rise of the white-life novel; title: The home and the street: Ann Petry's "rage for privacy"; title: White masks and queer prisons; title: Sympathy for the master: reforming southern white manhood in Frank Yerby's The Foxes of Harrow; title: Talk about the South: unspeakable things unspoken in Zora Neale Hurston's Seraph on the Suwanee; title: The unfinished project of western modernity: savage holiday, moral slaves, and the problem of freedom in Cold War America.