Abandoning the Black Hero: Sympathy and Privacy in the Postwar African American White-Life Novel

by John C. Charles and Professor John C. Charles

Book Overview

Abandoning the Black Hero is the first book to examine the postwar African American white-life novel--novels with white protagonists written by African Americans. These fascinating works have been understudied despite having been written by such defining figures in the tradition as Richard Wright, Zora Neale Hurston, James Baldwin, Ann Petry, and Chester Himes, as well as lesser known but formerly best-selling authors Willard Motley and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813554322
• ISBN13: 9780813554327
• Release Date: December 2012
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary