Race and White Identity in Southern Fiction: From Faulkner to Morrison

Duvall, J.

White southern writers are frequently associated with the racism of blackface minstrelsy in their representations of African American characters, however, this book makes visible the ways in which southern novelists repeatedly imagine their white characters as in some sense fundamentally black.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2012-07-24

Format: Paperback

ISBN-13: 9780230340442

DOI: 10.1057/9780230611825

Dimensions: 216.0cm x140.0cm

Pages: 194.0