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: 2008-07-01

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9781403983879

DOI: 10.1057/9780230611825

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 194