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"I'm regarded fatally as a Negro writer": mid-twentieth century racial discourse and the rise of the white-life novel

The home and the street: Ann Petry's "rage for privacy"

White masks and queer prisons

Sympathy for the master: reforming southern white manhood in Frank Yerby's The Foxes of Harrow

Talk about the South: unspeakable things unspoken in Zora Neale Hurston's Seraph on the Suwanee

The unfinished project of western modernity: savage holiday, moral slaves, and the problem of freedom in Cold War America.

American fiction > African American authors > History and criticism.

American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.

African Americans > Intellectual life > 20th century.