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Playing in the White: Black Writers, White Subjects

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The postwar period witnessed an outpouring of white life novels--that is, texts by African American writers focused almost exclusively on white characters. Almost every major mid-twentieth century black writer, including Zora Neale Hurston, Richard Wright, Ann Petry and James Baldwin, published one of these anomalous texts. Controversial since their publication in the 1940s and 50s, these novels have since fallen into obscurity given the challenges they pose to traditional conceptions of the African American literary canon. ...

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Playing in the White: Black Writers, White Subjects 2015, Oxford University Press, USA

ISBN-13: 9780199398881

Hardcover