White Writers, Race Matters explores the popular tradition of white-authored novels about racism in America. What explains their success, and what are their limitations? This study examines these questions through rich case studies combining...
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White Writers, Race Matters explores the popular tradition of white-authored novels about racism in America. What explains their success, and what are their limitations? This study examines these questions through rich case studies combining biography, historical analysis, close reading, and literary theory to map the significance of this genre and its ongoing relevance. Cover -- White Writers, Race Matters: fictions of racial liberalism from stowe to stockett -- COPYRIGHT -- DEDICATION -- Epigraph -- { CONTENTS } -- { ACKNOWLEDGMENTS } -- Introduction: toward a literary history of racial liberalism -- {1}: Sympathy in Action: stowe, twain, and the origins of liberal race fiction -- I. A Political Genre? -- II. Beginning with Sympathy -- III. Racialism or Racism? -- IV. To Hell and Back with Huckleberry Finn -- {2}: How Does It Feel to Be a Trademark?: fannie hurst's imitation of life -- I. Unsympathetic Pictures -- II. Questioning the Stereotypes -- III. Women and Blackness -- IV. Collapsing Caricatures and Peola's Protest -- V. "If I Were a Negro" -- {3}: Jew Like Me: empathy and antisemitism in laura zametkin hobson's gentleman's agreement -- I. Recovering Laura Zametkin -- II. Literature, Liberalism, and the Jewish Question -- III. The Writing of Gentleman's Agreement -- IV. Awakening the Conscience of Bourgeois Liberalism -- Coda: Hollywood and Prejudice -- {4}: Desegregating Liberalism: radical identifications in lillian smith's strange fruit and killers of the dream -- I. Disloyal to Whiteness and Patriarchy -- II. Telling About the South -- III. Uncomfortable Reading: Strange Fruit -- IV. A Lesson Book for Radical Liberalism -- {5}: Queer Children and Representative Men: harper lee's to kill a mockingbird -- I. Popularity and Pedagogy: Mockingbird on Screen and in the Classroom -- II. Historicizing Nelle Harper Lee: Racism and Rights at Mid-Century -- III. Queer Identifications -- {6}: Speaking of Abjection: white writing and black resistance in kathryn stockett's the help -- I. Unpopularity: Writing While White -- II. Blackness Abjected -- III. Talking B(l)ack -- IV. Loving (M)others -- V. A Change Is Gonna Come -- {Afterword } -- { NOTES } -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3.
