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Abandoning the Black hero [electronic resource] : sympathy and privacy in the postwar African American white-life novel / John C. Charles

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Charles, John C., 1968-
Published
New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2013.
Physical Description
xi, 263 p. ; 24 cm.
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Contents
"I'm regarded fatally as a Negro writer" : mid-twentieth century racial discourse and the rise of the white-life novel -- The home and the street: Ann Petry's "rage for privacy" -- White masks and queer prisons -- Sympathy for the master : reforming southern white manhood in Frank Yerby's The Foxes of Harrow -- Talk about the South : unspeakable things unspoken in Zora Neale Hurston's Seraph on the Suwanee -- The unfinished project of western modernity : savage holiday, moral slaves, and the problem of freedom in Cold War America.
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ISBN
9780813554334 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0813554330 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780813554327 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780813554341 (e-book)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-256) and index.
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