Gregory S Jay

White Writers, Race Matters

Fictions of Racial Liberalism from Stowe to Stockett

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Produktbeschreibung

White Writers, Race Matters explores the popular tradition of white-authored novels about racism in America. What explains their success, and what are their limitations? This study examines these questions through rich case studies combining biography, historical analysis, close reading, and literary theory to map the significance of this genre and its ongoing relevance.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Dezember 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 160mm x 36mm
• Gewicht: 676g
• ISBN-13: 9780190687229
• ISBN-10: 0190687223
• Artikelnr.: 49141105

Autorenporträt

Gregory S. Jay is Professor of English, University Wisconsin--Milwaukee.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* Chapter 1: Sympathy in Action: Stowe, Twain, and the Origins of
Liberal Race Fiction
* Chapter 2: How It Feels to be a Trade-mark: Fannie Hurst's Imitation
of Life
* Chapter 3: Jew Like Me: Empathy and Antisemitism in Laura Zametkin
Hobson's Gentleman's Agreement
* Chapter 4: Desegregating Liberalism: Radical Identifications in
Lillian Smith's Strange Fruit and Killers of the Dream
* Chapter 5: Queer Children and Representative Men: Harper Lee's To
Kill a Mockingbird
* Chapter 6: Speaking of Abjection: White Writing and Black Resistance
in Kathryn Stockett's The Help
* Afterword
* Endnotes
* Works Cited