To be suddenly white literary realism and racial passing
"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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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Columbia :
University of Missouri Press
2006.
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
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| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b31822903*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.
