"Race and White Identity in Southern Fiction" explores a form of
racial passing that has gone largely unnoticed. Duvall makes
visible the means by which southern novelists repeatedly imagined
their white characters as fundamentally black in some sense.
Beginning with William Faulkner, Duvall traces a form of figurative
and rhetorical masking in twentieth-century southern fiction that
derives from whiteface minstrelsy. In the fiction of such
subsequent writers as Flannery O'Connor, John Barth, Dorothy
Allison, and Ishmael Reed, the reader sees characters who present a
white face to the world, even as they unconsciously perform
cultural blackness. These queer performances of race repeatedly
reveal that being merely Caucasian is insufficient to claim
Southern Whiteness.
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