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Author:

Hopkins, Izabela, author.

Title:

Off Whiteness : place, blood, and tradition in post-reconstruction Southern literature / Izabela Hopkins.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

The University of Tennessee Press,

Copyright Date:

2020

Description:

258 pages ; 24 cm

Subject:

American literature--Southern States--History and criticism.
Whites in literature.
American literature--African American authors.
American literature--19th century--History and criticism.
Southern States--In literature.
Southern States--Intellectual life.
American literature.
American literature--African American authors.
Intellectual life.
Literature.
Whites in literature.
Southern States.
1800-1899
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Summary:

"This book examines the concept of whiteness as imagined by four Southern writers of the post-Reconstruction period: Thomas Nelson Page, Ellen Glasgow, Charles Waddell Chesnutt, and Alice Dunbar-Nelson. Izabela Hopkins argues that the unique narrative positions of these writers, offering their perspectives from both sides of the color line, allow for an objective scrutiny of the role of place and heritage in conceptions of Southern whiteness. By examining these authors, the project presents an alternate interpretation of Southern whiteness and demonstrates that reconstructions of whiteness need not be reduced to outward manifestations of color-white or black-but rather purposefully explore the ambivalence existing in the US South of the early twentieth century"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

1621905810
9781621905813

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1140778393

LCCN:

2020023685

Locations:

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