Playing the races [electronic resource] : ethnic caricature and American literary realism / Henry B. Wonham.
Publication details: New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.Description: viii, 196 p. : illISBN:- 0195161947
- American fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism
- Caricatures and cartoons -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- Ethnicity in literature
- Race in literature
- Realism in literature
- Stereotypes (Social psychology) in literature
- United States -- Ethnic relations -- History -- 19th century
- United States -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century
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- PS374.R32 W66 2004eb
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 173-192) and index.
Introduction: the age of caricature, the age of realism -- William Dean Howells and the touch of exaggeration which typifies -- "I want a real coon": Twain and ethnic caricature -- A Jamesian art to be cultivated -- Edith Wharton's flamboyant copy -- The "curious realism" of Charles Chesnutt.
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