In a major contribution to the study of race in American literature, Kenneth W. Warren argues that late-nineteenth-century literary realism was shaped by and in turn helped to shape post-Civil War racial politics. Taking up a variety of novelists, including Henry James and William Dean Howells, he shows that even works not directly concerned with race were instrumental in the return after reconstruction to a racially segregated society.Toni Morrison, aquot;Unspeakable Things Unspoken: The Afro-American Presence in American Literature, aquot; Michigan Quarterly Review 28.1 ( 1 989) : 1 1 . See also Morrison, Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination ( Cambridge, anbsp;...
Title | : | Black and White Strangers |
Author | : | Kenneth W. Warren |
Publisher | : | University of Chicago Press - 1995-03-15 |
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