Research Catalog

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Description

1. xii, 170 pages; 23 cm.

Series statement

1. Margaret Walker Alexander series in African American studies

Uniform title

1. Margaret Walker Alexander series in African American studies.

Subject

1. American literature > African American authors > History and criticism
2. Whites in literature
3. American literature > 19th century > History and criticism
4. Whites > Race identity > In literature

Contents

1. Naming: The literature of white estrangement -- "A form of insanity which overtakes white men": W.E.B. du Bois, Charles Chesnutt, and the specter of white double consciousness -- "Shaping herself into a dutiful wife": demythologizing white femininity and the white home in Frank Yerby's The foxes of harrow and Zora Neale Hurston's Seraph on the Suwanee -- "Occupied territory": mapping the spatial geographies of white identity and violence -- Conclusion: "No white and legal heir": the responsibility of whiteness in a multiracial world.

Call number

1. Sc E 14-192

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 143-165) and index.

Author

1. Watson, Veronica T.

Title

1. The souls of white folk : African American writers theorize whiteness / Veronica T. Watson.

Publisher

1. Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2013]

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Series

1. Margaret Walker Alexander series in African American studies
2. Margaret Walker Alexander series in African American studies.

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 143-165) and index.

LCCN

1. 2013006402

Other standard identifier

1. 40022749244

ISBN

1. 9781617038891 (cloth : alk. paper)
2. 161703889X (cloth : alk. paper)
3. 9781617038907 (ebook)
4. 1617038903 (ebook)

Research call number

1. Sc E 14-192