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  1. The fugitive race
    minority writers resisting whiteness
    Published: ©2002
    Publisher:  University Press of Mississippi, Jackson

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 1417506989; 9781417506989; 9781604730401; 1604730404; 1578065062; 9781578065066
    Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General; Psychologie; American literature; Human skin color; Identity (Psychology) in literature; Human skin color in literature; Group identity in literature; Ethnic groups in literature; Minorities in literature; Ethnicity in literature; Whites in literature; White in literature; Race in literature; Weiße; Minderheitenliteratur
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (xxviii, 249 pages)
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    Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-238) and index

    Narrative interruptions of panic : reverse acculturation in the early African American fiction of William Wells Brown and Harriet Wilson -- Miscegenated whiteness : Rebecca Harding Davis, the "civil-izing war," and "female racism" -- "Corporeal suspicion" : the missing crimes of neoabolitionist rape culture in Pauline Hopkins's detective histories -- Unacquiring Negrophobia : Younghill Kang and the cosmopolitan resistance to the white logic of naturalization -- Dis-integrating third spaces : the unrepresented in Abraham Cahan's and Mary Antin's narratives of Americanization -- White dissolution : homosexualization and racial masculinity in white life novels -- Queer Aztlan, mestizing "white" queer theory : Arturo Islas's The rain god

    Denying its formative dialogues with minorities, the white race, Stephen P. Knadler contends, has been a fugitive race. While the "white question," like the "Negro question," and the "woman question" a century earlier, has garnered considerable critical attention among scholars looking to find new anti-race strategies, these investigations need to highlight not just the exclusion of people of color, but also examine minority writers' resistance to and disruption of this privileged racial category. "Highly original, wonderfully detailed, and thought provoking