Abandoning the Black Hero : : Sympathy and Privacy in the Postwar African American White-Life Novel / / John C. Charles.
Abandoning the Black Hero is the first book to examine the postwar African American white-life novel-novels with white protagonists written by African Americans. These fascinating works have been understudied despite having been written by such defining figures in the tradition as Richard Wright, Zo...
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