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Abandoning the Black Hero - Sympathy and Privacy in the Postwar African American White-Life Novel (Hardcover, New)
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Abandoning the Black Hero - Sympathy and Privacy in the Postwar African American White-Life Novel (Hardcover, New)
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Abandoning 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.
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