Black and White Strangers

Download or read book Black and White Strangers written by Kenneth W. Warren and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1993-08-15 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a major contribution to the study of race in American literature, Kenneth W. Warren argues that late-nineteenth-century literary realism was shaped by and in turn helped to shape post-Civil War racial politics. Taking up a variety of novelists, including Henry James and William Dean Howells, he shows that even works not directly concerned with race were instrumental in the return after reconstruction to a racially segregated society.