Racism in Literature

Racism in Literature Criticism

• Introduction
• Representative Works
• Criticism: Overviews And General Studies
  • The ‘Incredible Indigo Sea’ within Anglo-American Fiction
  • Fictions of Whiteness: Speaking the Names of Whiteness in U.S. Literature
  • Racism, Sexism, and Antisemitism in Mysteries Featuring Women Sleuths
• Criticism: Racism And Literature By And About African Americans
  • Combatting Racism with Art: Charles S. Johnson and the Harlem Renaissance
  • Richard Wright and Bigger Thomas: Grace in Damnation
  • Tenants, Tenets, and Tensions: Bernard Malamud's Blacks and Jews
  • Getting Basic: Bambara's Re-visioning of the Black Aesthetic
  • Resisting Ideologies of Race and Gender: Evelyn Scott's Use of the Tragic Mulatto Figure
• Criticism: The Theme Of Racism In Literature
  • The Question of William Dean Howells's Racism
  • Conrad's Racism
  • Kate Chopin's The Awakening: An Assault on American Racial and Sexual Mythology
  • Light in August: The Closed Society and Its Subjects
  • ‘Saints in Slime’: The Ironic Use of Racism in Jack London's South Sea Tales
  • Playing in the Light: Examining Categorization in To Have and Have Not as a Reflection of Identity or Racism
  • Race and Reading: The Burden of Huckleberry Finn
• Further Reading