Playing in the White brings postwar white life novels back into conversations about the nature of African American literature and the unique expectations imposed upon black texts. Cover -- Playing in the White: Black Writers, White Subjects --...
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Playing in the White brings postwar white life novels back into conversations about the nature of African American literature and the unique expectations imposed upon black texts. Cover -- Playing in the White: Black Writers, White Subjects -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Playing in the White -- Introduction: IMAGINING THE SOULS OF WHITE FOLK -- The Origins and Development of White Life Novels -- The Blackness of White Life Novels -- 1 Signifyin(g) Black and White Speech in Zora Neale Hurston's Seraph on the Suwanee -- Black Speech in White Mouths -- Language and Gender: Signifyin(g) and Singularity -- Porches: The Space of Race -- 2 Race and the "Universal Problem" of Freedom in Richard Wright's The Outsider and Savage Holiday -- Black and White Outsiders -- Black and White Savagery -- The Safe Prison of Whiteness -- The Charade of Race -- Erskine and the Newspaper's Master Narrative -- Marriage and Murder -- 3 Whiteness and Narrative Authority in Ann Petry's Country Place -- Country Place's "Medium" -- Doc Fraser and the Weasel -- The Limits of Doc Fraser's Narrative -- Whiteness, Femininity, and Hollywood Narratives -- Neola and the Future of Lennox -- 4 CONJURING THE AFRICANIST PRESENCE: BLACKNESS IN JAMES BALDWIN'S GIOVANNI'S ROOM -- Readings in Black and White -- The Moral Choice of Whiteness -- Images of Black and White -- The Blackness of Male Rape -- 5 William Melvin Kelley's A Different Drummer and the Silence of Blackness -- The Myth of the African -- The Self-Interests of Whiteness -- Bradshaw and the Limits of Language -- Women and Self-Reliance -- The Historical Omissions of Whiteness -- Whiteness without Blackness -- Conclusion: POST-WHITENESS AND TWENTY-FIRST-CENTURY AMERICAN LITERATURE -- NOTES -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Conclusion -- WORKS CITED -- INDEX.
