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Murphy, Sarah.

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Beyond racial tragedy: Cross-racial alliances in American novels of the 1940s.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Beyond racial tragedy: Cross-racial alliances in American novels of the 1940s./
Author:	Murphy, Sarah.
Description:	218 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Susan Gubar.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International67-04A.
Subject:	Black Studies. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3215211
ISBN:	9780542654589

Beyond racial tragedy: Cross-racial alliances in American novels of the 1940s.
Murphy, Sarah.

Beyond racial tragedy: Cross-racial alliances in American novels of the 1940s. - 218 p.

Adviser: Susan Gubar.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, 2006.

This dissertation seeks to enrich accounts of race in twentieth-century American literature by examining how the narrative of sweeping racial tragedy---inspired, if not always embodied, by William Faulkner's canon---obscures other models of cross-racial interaction, even in Faulkner's own later work. Using close textual analysis of Richard Wright's Native Son, Carson McCullers's The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, and Faulkner's Intruder in the Dust, my project explores the novels' depictions of social alliances between African Americans and whites, including their particular representations of the obstacles to and possibilities for social and political bonds across racial lines. These portrayals of interracial friendships between men provide a sharp rebuttal to the idea that the racial sins of the past can be easily eradicated by the formation of individual cross-racial ties. Yet Wright, McCullers, and Faulkner also suggest that the struggle to build these alliances is a worthwhile political endeavor that may eventually foster significant social change. In addition, the novelists dramatize how these relationships are necessarily affected by larger forces, including institutionalized racism and historically shifting definitions of whiteness. Therefore, my thesis employs critical race theory to trace these authors' engagements with such racial discourses of the late 1930s and 1940s as the "taint" of Communist affiliation, the debate about the status of Jewish identity within the American racial paradigm, and the pathology of white supremacy. While the novels in this study illustrate the instability and ambiguity of the color line, they ultimately reject the notion of race as a social construct that can be easily cast aside. Indeed, these works emphasize that, fictional or not, race has devastating everyday consequences---including, but not limited to, bodily injury---in a society that clings to deeply-held beliefs about racial difference.

ISBN: 9780542654589Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017673
Black Studies.

Beyond racial tragedy: Cross-racial alliances in American novels of the 1940s.
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