Off Whiteness : place, blood, and tradition in post-reconstruction Southern literature

Off Whiteness : place, blood, and tradition in post-reconstruction Southern literature / Izabela Hopkins.

Author/creator	Hopkins, Izabela author.
Format	Book and Print
Edition	First edition.
Publication Info	Knoxville : The University of Tennessee Press, [2020]
Description	258 pages ; 24 cm
Subject(s)	American literature--Southern States --History and criticism. White people in literature American literature--African American authors. American literature--19th century --History and criticism. Southern States--In literature. Southern States--Intellectual life.

Abstract	"This book examines the concept of whiteness as imagined by four Southern writers of the post-Reconstruction period: Thomas Nelson Page, Ellen Glasgow, Charles Waddell Chesnutt, and Alice Dunbar-Nelson. Izabela Hopkins argues that the unique narrative positions of these writers, offering their perspectives from both sides of the color line, allow for an objective scrutiny of the role of place and heritage in conceptions of Southern whiteness. By examining these authors, the project presents an alternate interpretation of Southern whiteness and demonstrates that reconstructions of whiteness need not be reduced to outward manifestations of color-white or black-but rather purposefully explore the ambivalence existing in the US South of the early twentieth century"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Issued in other form	Online version: Hopkins, Izabela, Off whiteness First. Knoxville : The University of Tennessee Press, 2020. 9781621905820
Genre/form	Criticism, interpretation, etc.
LCCN	2020023685
ISBN	9781621905813
ISBN	1621905810 hardcover
ISBN	electronic book

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