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White writers, race matters : fictions of racial liberalism from Stowe to Stockett / Gregory S. Jay.
LIBRA PS374.L42 J39 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jay, Gregory S., author.
- Series:
- Oxford studies in American literary history
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Liberalism in literature.
- American fiction--White authors--History and criticism.
- American fiction.
- Race relations in literature.
- Race discrimination in literature.
- American fiction--White authors.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 370 pages ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2018]
- Contents:
- Sympathy in action: Stowe, Twain, and the origins of liberal race fiction
- How it feels to be a trade-mark: Fannie Hurst's Imitation of life
- Jew like me: empathy and antisemitism in Laura Zametkin Hobson's Gentleman;s agreement
- Desegregating liberalism: radical identifications in lillian Smith's Strange fruit and Killers of the dream
- Queer children and representative men: Harper Lee's To kill a mockingbird
- Speaking of abjection: white writing and black resistance in Kathryn Stockett's The help.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780190687229
- 0190687223
- OCLC:
- 990803125
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