Binding: Paperback
Description: Race and White Identity in Southern Fiction explores a form of racial passing that has gone largely unnoticed. Duvall makes visible the means by which southern novelists repeatedly imagined their white characters as fundamentally black in some sense. Beginning with William Faulkner Duvall traces a form of figurative and rhetorical masking in twentieth - century southern fiction that derives from whiteface minstrelsy. In the fiction of such subsequent writers as Flannery O Connor John Barth Dorothy Allison and Ishmael Reed the reader sees characters who present a white face to the world even as they unconsciously perform cultural blackness. These queer performances of race repeatedly reveal that being merely Caucasian is insufficient to claim Southern Whiteness.
Title: Race And White Identity In Southern Fiction From Faulkner To Morrison
Author(s): Duvall J.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Barcode: 9780230340442
Pages: 194 Pages, 1 Illustrations, Black And White; Xix, 194 P. 1 Illus.
Publication Date: 7/24/2012
Category: Social & Cultural Anthropology, Ethnography