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Hardcover Playing in the White: Black Writers, White Subjects Book

ISBN: 0199398887

ISBN13: 9780199398881

Playing in the White: Black Writers, White Subjects

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...

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