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Author:

Jay, Gregory S., author.

Title:

White writers, race matters : fictions of racial liberalism from Stowe to Stockett / Gregory S. Jay.

Publisher:

Oxford University Press,

Copyright Date:

2018

Description:

xi, 370 pages ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Liberalism in literature.
American fiction--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Race relations in literature.
Race discrimination in literature.
American fiction--White authors.
Liberalism in literature.
Race discrimination in literature.
Race relations in literature.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Sympathy in action: Stowe, Twain, and the origins of liberal race fiction -- How it feels to be a trade-mark: Fannie Hurst's Imitation of life -- Jew like me: empathy and antisemitism in Laura Zametkin Hobson's Gentleman;s agreement -- Desegregating liberalism: radical identifications in lillian Smith's Strange fruit and Killers of the dream -- Queer children and representative men: Harper Lee's To kill a mockingbird -- Speaking of abjection: white writing and black resistance in Kathryn Stockett's The help.

Series:

Oxford studies in American literary history

ISBN:

0190687223
9780190687229

OCLC:

(OCoLC)990803125

LCCN:

2017015382

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)