The postwar period witnessed an outpouring of white life novels - that is, texts by African American writers focused almost exclusively on white characters. Almost every major mid-twentieth century black writer, including Zora Neale Hurston, Richard Wright, Ann Petry, and James …
The postwar period witnessed an outpouring of texts by African American writers focused almost exclusively on white characters. Almost every major mid 20th-century black writer published one of these anomalous texts. Controversial since their publication in the 1940s and 1950s, …
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by Splendore, Paola, Coetzee, J. M., Baiocchi, Maria
Featuring new critical essays by scholars from Europe, South America, and the United States, At Home and Abroad presents a wide-ranging look at how whiteness-defined in terms of race or ethnicity-forms a category toward which people strive in order to gain power and privilege. C…
Featuring new critical essays by scholars from Europe, South America, and the United States, At Home and Abroad presents a wide-ranging look at how whiteness-defined in terms of race or ethnicity-forms a category toward which people strive in order to gain power and privilege. C…
Critics have called Harry Crews a ""mad genius"" and ""Flannery O'Connor on steroids."" His novels chronicle the southern world on the edge of insanity. His characters set out to eat an entire car on national television, attend rattlesnake round-ups, and become obsessed with tra…
