Playing the races ethnic caricature and American literary realism / [electronic resource] :
Henry B. Wonham.
- New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2004.
- 1 online resource (viii, 196 p.) : ill.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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?
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American fiction--History and criticism.--19th century Race in literature. Caricatures and cartoons--History--United States--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.