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1 online resource (278 pages) |
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text file |
| Contents |
Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1. "I'm Regarded Fatally as a Negro Writer":Mid-Twentieth-Century Racial Discourseand the Rise of the White-Life Novel; Chapter 2. The Home and the Street: Ann Petry's"Rage for Privacy"; Chapter 3. White Masks and Queer Prisons; Chapter 4. Sympathy for the Master: Reforming Southern White Manhood in Frank Yerby'sThe Foxes of Harrow; Chapter 5. Talk about the South: Unspeakable Things Unspoken in Zora Neale Hurston'sSeraph on the Suwanee. |
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Chapter 6. The Unfinished Project of Western Modernity:Savage Holiday, Moral Slaves, and the Problemof Freedom in Cold War AmericaConclusion; Notes; Works Cited; Index; About the Author. |
| Summary |
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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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
American fiction -- African American authors -- History and criticism.
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American fiction -- African American authors. |
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American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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American fiction. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
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African Americans -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
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African Americans -- Intellectual life. |
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White people in literature.
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White people in literature. |
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Race in literature.
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Race in literature. |
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1900 - 1999 |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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American Literatures Initiative.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Charles, John C. Abandoning the Black Hero : Sympathy and Privacy in the Postwar African American White-Life Novel. New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, ©2012 9780813554327 |
| ISBN |
9780813554341 (electronic book) |
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0813554349 (electronic book) |
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1283684071 (e-book) |
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9781283684071 (e-book) |
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9780813554334 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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0813554330 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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9780813554327 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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0813554322 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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