Title To be suddenly white : literary realism and racial passing / Steven J. Belluscio

Published Columbia : University of Missouri Press, ©2006

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Description 1 online resource (x, 288 pages) Contents Assimilation, whiteness, and realism -- To pass or not to pass? William Dean Howells's and Frances E.W. Harper's "not very black" women -- Race or nation? White ethnics upstream in the writing of Cautela, Cahan, D'Agostino, Lewisohn, and Ornitz -- "To rise above this absurd drama that others have staged" : race critique and genre in Chesnutt, Johnson, and Schuyler -- "As if I were dead" : passing into subjectivity in the writings of Ets, Antin, Yezierska, and Barolini -- Women "caught between two allegiances" : the drive toward modernism in Chesnutt, White, Fauset, and Larsen Summary "Explores the challenges of subjective passing narratives written during the height of literary realism. Discusses racial and ethnic differences, assimilation, passing, and identity by comparing African-American narratives of James Johnson, Nella Larson, and George Schuyler and 'white' ethnic (Jewish-American and Italian-American) narratives by Mary Antin, Anzia Yezierska, and Guido D'Agostino"--Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-275) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English Print version record digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject American prose literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism American prose literature -- Minority authors -- History and criticism Minorities -- United States -- Biography -- History and criticism African Americans -- Biography -- History and criticism Assimilation (Sociology) in literature. Identity (Psychology) in literature. African Americans in literature. Passing (Identity) in literature. Human skin color in literature. Race awareness in literature. Group identity in literature. Ethnicity in literature. Realism in literature. Race in literature. Autobiography. Autobiographies as Topic autobiography (genre) LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General. African Americans -- Biography African Americans in literature American prose literature -- African American authors American prose literature -- Minority authors Assimilation (Sociology) in literature Autobiography Ethnicity in literature Group identity in literature Human skin color in literature Identity (Psychology) in literature Minorities -- Biography Passing (Identity) in literature Race awareness in literature Race in literature Realism in literature Literatur Ethnische Identität Motiv Rassenbeziehung (Motiv) United States USA Schwärze Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book LC no. 2005028036 ISBN 9780826264855 0826264859

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