Playing in the White: Black Writers, White Subjects

by Stephanie Li

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199398887
• ISBN13: 9780199398881
• Release Date: January 2015
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.3"