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The postwar period witnessed an outpouring of white life novels - that is, texts by African American writers focused almost exclusively on white characters. Almost every major mid-twentieth century black writer, including Zora Neale Hurston, Richard Wright, Ann Petry, and James Baldwin, published one of these anomalous texts. Controversial since their publication in the 1940s and 50s, these novels have since fallen into obscurity given the challenges they pose to traditional conceptions of the African American literary canon. Playing in the White: Black Writers, White Subjects aims to bring these neglected novels back into conversations about the nature of African American literature and the unique expectations imposed upon black texts. In a series of nuanced readings, Li demonstrates how postwar black novelists were at the forefront of what is now commonly understood as whiteness studies. Novels like Hurston's Seraph on the Suwanee and Wright's Savage Holiday, once read as abdications of the political imperative of African American literature, are revisited with an awareness of how whiteness signifies in multivalent ways that critique America's abiding racial hierarchies. These novels explore how this particular racial construction is freighted with social power and narrative meaning. Whiteness repeatedly figures in these texts as a set of expectations that are nearly impossible to fulfill. By describing characters who continually fail at whiteness, white life novels ask readers to reassess what race means for all Americans. Along with its close analysis of key white life novels, Playing in the White: Black Writers, White Subjects also provides important historical context to understand how these texts represented the hopes and anxieties of a newly integrated nation. -- from dust jacket.

Blancs dans la littérature --- Blanken in de literatuur --- Petry, Ann Lane, 1911-1997. Country Place --- Whites in literature --- Wright, Richard, 1908-1960. The Outsider --- American literature --- Littérature américaine --- Blancs --- Whites in literature. --- African American authors --- History and criticism. --- Auteurs noirs américains --- Histoire et crtitique --- Dans la littérature --- History and criticism --- Hurston, Zora Neale --- Wright, Richard --- Kelley, William Melvin --- Histoire et crtitique. --- Dans la littérature. --- White people in literature. --- Littérature américaine --- Auteurs noirs américains --- Dans la littérature.

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This volume is a collection of essays on black short stories written between 1998 and 1976. It aims to say something about the black short story as a genre and the development of the racial situation in America as well. The primary aim is to introduce the reader to this long neglected genre of black fiction. In contrast to the black novel, the short story has hardly been given extensive criticism, let alone serious attention. The individual essays of this collection aim at presenting new points of critical orientation in the hope of reviving and fostering further discussions.

Baldwin, James, 1924-1987. Going to Meet the Man --- Chesnutt, Charles Waddell, 1858-1932. The Sheriff's Children --- Dunbar, Paul Laurence, 1872-1906. The Scapegoat --- Ellison, Ralph Waldo, 1914-1994. King of the Bingo Game --- Gaines, Ernest J., 1933- . A Long Day in November --- Himes, Chester, 1909-1984. A Nipper --- Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967. The Blues I'm Playing --- Kelley, William Melvin, 1937- . The Poker Party --- Toomer, Jean, 1894-1967. Fern --- Williams, John Alfred, 1925 . Son in the Afternoon --- Wright, Richard, 1908-1960. Fire and Cloud --- Fiction --- American literature --- anno 1900-1999 --- American fiction --- -African Americans in literature --- Short stories, American --- -Afro-Americans in literature --- Negroes in literature --- American short stories --- History and criticism --- African American authors --- African Americans in literature --- African Americans --- Afro-Americans in literature --- Intellectual life --- African American authors&delete& --- Baraka, Imamu Amiri --- Short stories [American ] --- 20th century --- History and criticism.

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Drawing on a wide range of major literary voices, including Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, and Toni Morrison, as well as lesser-known writers such as William Attaway (Blood on the Forge) and Dorothy West (The Living Is Easy), Rodgers conducts a kind of literary archaeology of the Great Migration. He mines the writers' biographical connections to migration and teases apart the ways in which individual novels relate to one another, to the historical situation of black America, and to African-American literature as a whole. In reading migration novels in relation to African-American literary texts such as slave narratives, folk tales, and urban fiction, Rodgers affirms the southern folk roots of African-American culture and argues for a need to stem the erosion of southern memory.

Fiction --- Thematology --- American literature --- American fiction --- Literature and society --- African Americans --- Rural-urban migration in literature --- Migration, Internal, in literature --- City and town life in literature --- African Americans in literature --- Narration (Rhetoric) --- Narrative (Rhetoric) --- Narrative writing --- Rhetoric --- Discourse analysis, Narrative --- Narratees (Rhetoric) --- Afro-Americans in literature --- Negroes in literature --- African American authors&delete& --- History and criticism --- History --- Intellectual life --- Southern States --- In literature. --- African American authors --- Migration [Internal ] in literature --- United States --- 20th century --- Southern States in literature --- Attaway, William A. --- Criticism and interpretation --- Johnson, James Weldon --- Bland, Alden --- Wright, Richard --- Thurman, Wallace --- Toomer, Jean --- Kelley, William Melvin --- Du Bois, William Edward Burghardt --- Ellison, Ralph Waldo --- White, Walter Francis --- McKay, Claude --- Hurston, Zora Neale --- Morrison, Toni --- West, Dorothy --- Slavery in literature --- Slaves' writings [American ]

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The importance of blacks for Jews and Jews for blacks in conceiving of themselves as Americans, when both remained outsiders to the privileges of full citizenship, is a matter of voluminous but perplexing record. A monumental work of literary criticism and cultural history, Strangers in the Land draws upon politics, sociology, law, religion, and popular culture to illuminate a vital, highly conflicted interethnic partnership over the course of a century.

Non-fiction --- Fiction --- American literature --- Sociology of literature --- Thematology --- anno 1900-1999 --- African Americans in literature --- Afro-Americans in literature --- Afro-Amerikanen in de literatuur --- Afro-Américains dans la littérature --- Amerikaanse zwarten in de literatuur --- Black Americans in literature --- Catastrophe [Jewish ] (1939-1945) --- Choa --- Destruction des Juifs (1941-1945) --- Destruction of the Jews (1939-1945) --- Endlösung der Judenfrage --- Exode (Evénement biblique) --- Exodus (Biblical event) --- Exodus (Bijbelse gebeurtenis) --- Exodus [The ] --- Extermination [Jewish ] (1939-1945) --- Extermination des Juifs (1941-1945) --- Guerre mondiale (1939-1945) -- Shoah --- Génocide des Juifs (1941-1945) --- Génocide juif (1941-1945) --- Holocaust [Jewish ] (1939-1945) --- Holocaust [Joodse ] (1939-1945) --- Holocaust [Nazi ] --- Holocauste (1941-1945) --- Holocauste juif (1939-1945) --- Hurban (1939-1945) --- Hurbn (1939-1945) --- Jewish Catastrophe (1939-1945) --- Jewish Holocaust (1939-1945) --- Jews -- Nazi persecution --- Jews in literature --- Jews--Exodus --- Joden in de literatuur --- Joden--Uittocht --- Juifs -- Extermination (1941-1945) --- Juifs -- Génocide (1941-1945) --- Juifs -- Holocauste (1941-1945) --- Juifs -- Rafles (1941-1945) --- Juifs -- Shoah (1941-1945) --- Juifs dans la littérature --- Juifs--Exode d'Egypte --- Nazi Holocaust --- Nazi persecution of Jews --- Negroes in literature --- Noirs américains dans la littérature --- Question juive [Solution finale de la ] --- Race relations in literature --- Racism in literature --- Racisme dans la littérature --- Racisme in de literatuur --- Rafles de juifs (1941-1945) --- Rassenverhoudingen in de literatuur --- Relations raciales dans la littérature --- Sho'ah (1939-1945) --- Shoah --- Sionisme --- Solution finale de la question juive --- Uittocht (Bijbelse gebeurtenis) --- Zionism --- Zionisme --- Zwarte Amerikanen in de literatuur --- African Americans in literature. --- African Americans --- Exodus, The. --- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) --- Jews in literature. --- Race relations in literature. --- Racism in literature. --- Zionism. --- Relations with Jews. --- History and criticism. --- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945). --- Exodus, The --- Catastrophe, Jewish (1939-1945) --- Extermination, Jewish (1939-1945) --- Holocaust, Nazi --- Ḥurban (1939-1945) --- Ḥurbn (1939-1945) --- Jews --- Shoʾah (1939-1945) --- Genocide --- World War, 1939-1945 --- Kindertransports (Rescue operations) --- African American-Jewish relations --- Jewish-African American relations --- Negro-Jewish relations --- Zionist movement --- Jewish nationalism --- Relations with Jews --- History and criticism --- Nazi persecution --- Persecutions --- Atrocities --- Jewish resistance --- Exodus --- History --- Relations with African Americans --- Politics and government --- Restoration --- United States --- Race relations --- 20th century --- Kelley, William Melvin --- Marshall, Paule --- Malamud, Bernard --- Holocaust, Nazi (Jewish Holocaust) --- Nazi Holocaust (Jewish Holocaust) --- Nazi persecution (1939-1945) --- American literature. --- Exode. --- Holocauste, 1939-1945. --- Juifs dans la littérature. --- Literatur. --- Littérature américaine --- Noirs américains dans la littérature. --- Noirs américains --- Race relations. --- Racisme dans la littérature. --- Rassenbeziehung . --- Relations raciales dans la littérature. --- Sionisme. --- Histoire et critique --- Relations avec les Juifs. --- 1900-1999. --- Juden. --- Schwärze. --- USA. --- United States. --- États-Unis --- Relations raciales --- Histoire --- Relations interethniques --- Juifs --- Dans la littérature --- 1945-.... --- Thèmes, motifs --- Holocaust (1939-1945)