The South in Black and white: race, sex, and literature in the 1940s

Introd.

Whatever else the true American is, he is also somehow Black.

1. Moving among the living as ghosts: a historical overview.

2. Private violence desirable: race, sex, and sadism in Wilber J. Cash's "The mind of of the South."

3. Men of honor and pygmy tribes: metaphors of race and cultural decline in William Alexander Percy's "Lanterns on the Levee."

4. I know the fears by heart: segregation as metaphor in the work of Lillian Smith.

5. The sadness made her feel queer: race, gender, and the grotesque in the early writings of Carson McCullers.

Conclusion: Thirteen ways of looking at whiteness.