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...
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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. 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
Includes bibliographical references (p. [181]-187) and index
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Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface: White Face, Black Performance; 1 Artificial Negroes, White Homelessness, and Diaspora Consciousness; 2 William Faulkner, Whiteface, and Black Identity; 3 Flannery O'Connor, (G)race, and Colored Identity; 4 John Barth, Blackface, and Invisible Identity; 5 Dorothy Allison, "Nigger Trash," and Miscegenated Identity; 6 Black Writing and Whiteface; Notes; Works Cited; Index
