To be suddenly white : literary realism and racial passing /

To be suddenly white : literary realism and racial passing /

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"Explores the challenges of subjective passing narratives written during the height of literary realism. Discusses racial and ethnic differences, assimilation, passing, and identity by comparing African-American narratives of James Johnson, Nella Larson, and George Schuyler and 'white'...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Belluscio, Steven J.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Columbia : University of Missouri Press, ©2006.
Subjects:
American prose literature > African American authors > History and criticism.
American prose literature > Minority authors > History and criticism.
Minorities > United States > Biography > History and criticism.
African Americans > Biography > History and criticism.
Assimilation (Sociology) in literature.
Identity (Psychology) in literature.
African Americans in literature.
Passing (Identity) in literature.
Human skin color in literature.
Race awareness in literature.
Group identity in literature.
Ethnicity in literature.
Realism in literature.
Race in literature.
Autobiography.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:
  • Assimilation, whiteness, and realism
  • To pass or not to pass? William Dean Howells's and Frances E.W. Harper's "not very black" women
  • Race or nation? White ethnics upstream in the writing of Cautela, Cahan, D'Agostino, Lewisohn, and Ornitz
  • "To rise above this absurd drama that others have staged" : race critique and genre in Chesnutt, Johnson, and Schuyler
  • "As if I were dead" : passing into subjectivity in the writings of Ets, Antin, Yezierska, and Barolini
  • Women "caught between two allegiances" : the drive toward modernism in Chesnutt, White, Fauset, and Larsen.

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