Off Whiteness : Place, Blood, and Tradition in Post-Reconstruction Southern Literature

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Izabela Hopkins

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

White people in literature.

Literature.

Intellectual life.

American literature--African American authors.

American literature.

American literature--19th century--History and criticism.

American literature--Southern States--History and criticism.

Southern States.

Southern States--Intellectual life.

Southern States--In literature.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (264 pages).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Lightning Source Inc. (Tier 3) 2023

Summary:

"This book examines the concept of whiteness as imagined by four Southern writers of the post-Reconstruction period: Thomas Nelson Page, Ellen Glasgow, Charles Waddell Chesnutt, and Alice Dunbar-Nelson. Izabela Hopkins argues that the unique narrative positions of these writers, offering their perspectives from both sides of the color line, allow for an objective scrutiny of the role of place and heritage in conceptions of Southern whiteness. By examining these authors, the project presents an alternate interpretation of Southern whiteness and demonstrates that reconstructions of whiteness need not be reduced to outward manifestations of color-white or black-but rather purposefully explore the ambivalence existing in the US South of the early twentieth century"-- Provided by publisher

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781621905820

1621905829

OCLC:

1156437040