Race and White Identity in Southern Fiction: From Faulkner to Morrison

by John N. Duvall

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 023034044X
• ISBN13: 9780230340442
• Release Date: July 2012
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 194 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.4" x 8.3"