
Author/Contributor(s): | Jenkins, McKay |
Publisher: | University of North Carolina Press |
Date: | 09/20/1999 |
Binding: | Paperback |
Condition: | NEW |
Jenkins focuses on four white Southern writers--W. J. Cash, William Alexander Percy, Lillian Smith, and Carson McCullers--to show how they constructed images of race and race relations within works that professed to have little, if anything, to do with race. Sexual isolation further complicated these authors' struggles with issues of identity and repression, he argues, allowing them to occupy a space between the privilege of whiteness and the alienation of blackness. Although their views on race varied tremendously, these Southern writers' uneasy relationship with their own dominant racial group belies the idea that whiteness was an unchallenged, monolithic racial identity in the region.