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The souls of white folk : African American writers theorize whiteness / Veronica T. Watson.
Van Pelt Library PS153.N5 W355 2013
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Watson, Veronica T.
- Series:
- Margaret Walker Alexander series in African American studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American literature--African American authors--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- American literature--African American authors.
- American literature--19th century--History and criticism.
- White people--Race identity--In literature.
- White people.
- White people in literature.
- White people--Race identity.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 170 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2013.
- Contents:
- Naming: The literature of white estrangement
- "A form of insanity which overtakes white men": W.E.B. du Bois, Charles Chesnutt, and the specter of white double consciousness
- "Shaping herself into a dutiful wife": demythologizing white femininity and the white home in Frank Yerby's The foxes of harrow and Zora Neale Hurston's Seraph on the Suwanee
- "Occupied territory": mapping the spatial geographies of white identity and violence
- Conclusion: "No white and legal heir": the responsibility of whiteness in a multiracial world.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 143-165) and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Watson, Veronica T. Souls of white folk.
- ISBN:
- 9781617038891
- 161703889X
- OCLC:
- 833918018
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