Eudora Welty, Whiteness, and Race

Informationen zum Autor Harriet Pollack is a professor of English at Bucknell University. Her previous books include "Emmett Till in Literary Memory and Imagination" and "Eudora Welty and Politics: Did the Writer Crusade?" Klappentext Faced with Eudora Welty's preference for the oblique in literary performances! some have assumed that Welty was not concerned with issues of race! or was ambivalent toward racism. This collection counters those assumptions as it examines Welty's handling of race! the colour line! and Jim Crow segregation and sheds new light on her views about the insensitivities! blindness! and atrocities of whiteness. Zusammenfassung Faced with Welty's preference for the oblique in literary performances! some have assumed that Welty was not concerned with issues of race. This collection counters those assumptions as it examines Welty's handling of race! the color line! and Jim Crow segregation and sheds new light on her views.

Product details

• Authors: Harriet (EDT) Pollack
• Assisted by: Harriet Pollack (Editor)
• Publisher: The University of Georgia Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2013
• EAN: 9780820344331
• ISBN: 978-0-8203-4433-1
• No. of pages: 275
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 222 mm x 19 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Amerika, Literature - Classics / Criticism, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General