Abandoning the Black Hero Sympathy and Privacy in the Postwar African American White-Life Novel.
Abandoning the Black Hero examines the motivations that led certain African American authors in mid-twentieth century to shift from writing protest novels about racial injustice to novels focusing primarily, if not exclusively on whites, or white-life novels. These fascinating works have been unders...
| Основен автор: | Charles, John C. |
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| Автор-организации: | American Literatures Initiative. |
| Формат: | Електронен |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
New Brunswick, NJ :
Rutgers University Press,
2012.
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=549302 |
| Подобни документи: |
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Abandoning the Black Hero : Sympathy and Privacy in the Postwar African American White-Life Novel. |
| Резюме: |
Abandoning the Black Hero examines the motivations that led certain African American authors in mid-twentieth century to shift from writing protest novels about racial injustice to novels focusing primarily, if not exclusively on whites, or white-life novels. These fascinating works have been understudied despite having been written by such defining figures as Richard Wright, Zora Neale Hurston, James Baldwin, Ann Petry, and Chester Himes, as well as lesser known but formerly best-selling auth. |
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| Физически характеристики: |
1 online resource (278 pages) |
| Библиография: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780813554341 0813554349 1283684071 9781283684071 9780813554334 0813554330 9780813554327 0813554322 |