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1 online resource. |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Oxford studies in American literary history ; 9
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Oxford studies in American literary history ; 9.
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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""Cover""; ""Playing in the White: Black Writers, White Subjects""; ""Copyright""; ""Dedication""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Playing in the White""; ""Introduction: IMAGINING THE SOULS OF WHITE FOLK""; ""The Origins and Development of White Life Novels""; ""The Blackness of White Life Novels""; ""1 Signifyin(g) Black and White Speech in Zora Neale Hurston�s Seraph on the Suwanee""; ""Black Speech in White Mouths""; ""Language and Gender: Signifyin(g) and Singularity""; ""Porches: The Space of Race"" |
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""2 Race and the “Universal Problem� of Freedom in Richard Wright�s The Outsider and Savage Holiday""""Black and White Outsiders""; ""Black and White Savagery""; ""The Safe Prison of Whiteness""; ""The Charade of Race""; ""Erskine and the Newspaper�s Master Narrative""; ""Marriage and Murder""; ""3 Whiteness and Narrative Authority in Ann Petry�s Country Place""; ""Country Place�s “Medium�""; ""Doc Fraser and the Weasel""; ""The Limits of Doc Fraser�s Narrative""; ""Whiteness, Femininity, and Hollywood Narratives""; ""Neola and the Future of Lennox"" |
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""4 CONJURING THE AFRICANIST PRESENCE: BLACKNESS IN JAMES BALDWIN�S GIOVANNI�S ROOM""""Readings in Black and White""; ""The Moral Choice of Whiteness""; ""Images of Black and White""; ""The Blackness of Male Rape""; ""5 William Melvin Kelley�s A Different Drummer and the Silence of Blackness""; ""The Myth of the African""; ""The Self-Interests of Whiteness""; ""Bradshaw and the Limits of Language""; ""Women and Self-Reliance""; ""The Historical Omissions of Whiteness""; ""Whiteness without Blackness""; ""Conclusion: POST-WHITENESS AND TWENTY-FIRST-CENTURY AMERICAN LITERATURE"" |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism.
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American literature -- African American authors. |
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White people in literature.
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White people in literature. |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Li, Stephanie, 1977- Playing in the white 9780199398881 (DLC) 2014018991 (OCoLC)885312962 |
| ISBN |
9780199398898 (electronic book) |
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0199398895 (electronic book) |
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9780199398881 |
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0199398887 |
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