Beschreibung:
White southern writers are frequently associated with the racism of blackface minstrelsy in their representations of African American characters, however, this book makes visible the ways in which southern novelists repeatedly imagine their white characters as in some sense fundamentally black.
White Face, Black Culture Artificial Niggers, White Homelessness, and Diaspora Consciousness William Faulkner, Whiteface, and Black Identity Flannery O'Connor, (G)race, and Colored Identity John Barth, Blackface, and Invisible Identity Dorothy Allison, "Nigger Trash" and Miscegenated Identity African American Fiction and the Limits of Whiteface