Playing the races [electronic resource] : ethnic caricature and American literary realism / Henry B. Wonham.
Publication details: New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2004.Description: 1 online resource (viii, 196 p.) : illISBN:- 9780195161946
- American fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism
- Race in literature
- Caricatures and cartoons -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- Stereotypes (Social psychology) in literature
- Ethnicity in literature
- Realism in literature
- United States -- Ethnic relations -- History -- 19th century
- United States -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century
- 813.309355 22
- PS374.R32
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Why did so many of the writers who aligned themselves with the social and aesthetic aims of late 19th-century American literary realism rely on stock conventions of ethnic caricature in their treatment of immigrant African-American figures?
Description based on print version record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.