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Playing in the white : black writers, white subjects / Stephanie Li.
LIBRA PS153.N5 L473 2015
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Li, Stephanie, 1977- author.
- Series:
- Oxford studies in American literary history
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American literature--African American authors--History and criticism.
- American literature--African American authors.
- White people in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 229 pages ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2015]
- Contents:
- 1 Signifyin(g) Black and White Speech in Zora Neale Hurston's Seraph on the Suwanee 31
- 2 Race and the "Universal Problem" of Freedom in Richard Wrights The Outsider and Savage Holiday 61
- 3 Whiteness and Narrative Authority in Ann Petry's Country Place 95
- 4 Conjuring the Africanist Presence: Blackness in James Baldwin's Giovanni's Room 129
- 5 William Melvin Kelley's A Different Drummer and the Silence of Blackness 157.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780199398881
- 0199398887
- OCLC:
- 885312962
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