Whiteness and American literature edited by Jolene Hubbs

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hubbs, Jolene, editor.

Series:

Cambridge themes in American literature and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--History and criticism.

American literature.

White people in literature.

White people in art.

White people--Race identity--In literature.

White people.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Cambridge New York, NY Cambridge University Press 2025

Summary:

"This book brings together essays by leading scholars in the field to explore the diverse ways that whiteness has shaped and been represented in American arts (literature as well as music, cinema, and television) from the early national period to the present"-- Provided by publisher

Contents:

The imperial sounds of whiteness / Harilaos Stecopoulos

Whiteness in late nineteenth-century literature and law / Mita Banerjee

Poor white people in the eugenic imagination / Matt Wray

White nationalism / Edward K. Chan

Whiteness and the US–Mexico border / Lee Bebout

How Hollywood pictures whiteness / Justin Gomer

Whiteface minstrels, stage Europeans, and twenty-first-century television dramas / Marvin McAllister

Whiteness in nineteenth-century speculative writing / Hannah Lauren Murray

Whiteness and the slave narrative / John Ernest

Passing in modernist literature / Masami Sugimori

Whiteness in African American writers’ nonfictional works / Veronica T. Watson

The historical novel of whiteness / T. Austin Graham

The unbearable whiteness of contemporary US climate fiction / Teresa A. Goddu

The twenty-first-century white life novel / Stephanie Li

Whiteness and food studies / Catherine Keyser

Whiteness and queer studies / Andrew Donnelly

Whiteness and legal studies / Eden Osucha

Whiteness and working-class studies / Timothy Helwig

Whiteness and feminism / Taylor Nygaard and Jorie Lagerwey

Whiteness and disability studies / Stephen Knadler

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Online resource; title from PDF title page (Cambridge University Press, viewed July 11, 2025)

Other Format:

Print version Whiteness and American literature

ISBN:

9781009522748

1009522744

OCLC:

1481563917