LEADER 04465nam 22006615 450 001 9910462098803321 005 20220131183712.0 010 $a1-283-68407-1 010 $a0-8135-5434-9 024 7 $a10.36019/9780813554341 035 $a(CKB)2670000000275638 035 $a(EBL)1043376 035 $a(OCoLC)818818031 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000762413 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11507130 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000762413 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10738369 035 $a(PQKB)10835570 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1043376 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse18903 035 $a(DE-B1597)526500 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780813554341 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000275638 100 $a20191221d2012 fg 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aAbandoning the Black Hero $eSympathy and Privacy in the Postwar African American White-Life Novel /$fJohn C. Charles 210 1$aNew Brunswick, NJ :$cRutgers University Press,$d[2012] 210 4$dİ2012 215 $a1 online resource (278 p.) 225 0 $aThe American Literatures Initiative 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-8135-5432-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction --$t1. "I'M Regarded Fatally As A Negro Writer": Mid-Twentieth-Century Racial Discourse And The Rise Of The White-Life Novel --$t2. The Home And The Street: Ann Petry's "Rage For Privacy" --$t3. White Masks And Queer Prisons --$t4. Sympathy For The Master: Reforming Southern White Manhood In Frank Yerby's The Foxes Of Harrow --$t5. Talk About The South: Unspeakable Things Unspoken In Zora Neale Hurston's Seraph On The Suwanee --$t6. The Unfinished Project Of Western Modernity: Savage Holiday, Moral Slaves, And The Problem Of Freedom In Cold War America --$tConclusion --$tNotes --$tWorks Cited --$tIndex --$tAbout The Author 330 $aAbandoning 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 Frank Yerby. John C. Charles argues that these fictions have been overlooked because they deviate from two critical suppositions: that black literature is always about black life and that when it represents whiteness, it must attack white supremacy. The authors are, however, quite sympathetic in the treatment of their white protagonists, which Charles contends should be read not as a failure of racial pride but instead as a strategy for claiming creative freedom, expansive moral authority, and critical agency. In an era when "Negro writers" were expected to protest, their sympathetic treatment of white suffering grants these authors a degree of racial privacy previously unavailable to them. White writers, after all, have the privilege of racial privacy because they are never pressured to write only about white life. Charles reveals that the freedom to abandon the "Negro problem" encouraged these authors to explore a range of new genres and themes, generating a strikingly diverse body of novels that significantly revise our understanding of mid-twentieth-century black writing. 606 $aAmerican fiction$xAfrican American authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAmerican fiction$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAfrican Americans$xIntellectual life$y20th century 606 $aWhite people in literature 606 $aRace in literature 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aAmerican fiction$xAfrican American authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAmerican fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAfrican Americans$xIntellectual life 615 0$aWhite people in literature. 615 0$aRace in literature. 676 $a813.5409896073 700 $aCharles$b John C.$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut.$01026752 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910462098803321 996 $aAbandoning the Black Hero$92441854 997 $aUNINA