Race and White Identity in Southern Fiction: From Faulkner to Morrison

by John N. Duvall

Book Overview

White southern writers are frequently associated with the racism of blackface minstrelsy in their representations of African American characters, however, this book makes visible the ways in which southern novelists repeatedly imagine their white characters as in some sense fundamentally black.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1403983879
• ISBN13: 9781403983879
• Release Date: July 2008
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 194 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.3"