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Playing the races : ethnic caricature and American literary realism / Henry B. Wonham.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wonham, Henry B., 1960-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American fiction--19th century--History and criticism.
- American fiction.
- Race in literature.
- Caricatures and cartoons--United States--History--19th century.
- Caricatures and cartoons.
- Stereotypes (Social psychology) in literature.
- Ethnicity in literature.
- Realism in literature.
- United States--Ethnic relations--History--19th century.
- United States.
- United States--Race relations--History--19th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (207 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Why did so many of the writers who aligned themselves with the social and aesthetic aims of late 19th-century American literary realism rely on stock conventions of ethnic caricature in their treatment of immigrant African-American figures?
- Contents:
- Introduction: the age of caricature, the age of realism
- William Dean Howells and the touch of exaggeration which typifies
- "I want a real coon": Twain and ethnic caricature
- A Jamesian art to be cultivated
- Edith Wharton's flamboyant copy
- The "curious realism" of Charles Chesnutt.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 173-192) and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-028988-0
- 0-19-803664-7
- 9786610532773
- 1-280-53277-7
- 1-60256-947-9
- OCLC:
- 922952490
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