Black and White Strangers: Race and American Literary Realism (Black Literature and Culture)

ISBN: 0226873854

Author: Warren, Professor Kenneth W.

Condition: New

In a major contribution to the study of race in American literature, Kenneth W. Warren argues that late-nineteenth-century literary realism was shaped by and in turn helped to shape post-Civil War racial politics. Taking up a variety of novelists, including Henry James and William Dean Howells, he shows that even works not directly concerned with race were instrumental in the return after reconstruction to a racially segregated society.