4. Sympathy For The Master: Reforming Southern White Manhood In Frank Yerby’S The Foxes Of Harrow

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 1
5. 1. “I’M Regarded Fatally As A Negro Writer”: Mid-Twentieth-Century Racial Discourse And The Rise Of The White-Life Novel 22
6. 2. The Home And The Street: Ann Petry’S “Rage For Privacy” 55
7. 3. White Masks And Queer Prisons 86
8. 4. Sympathy For The Master: Reforming Southern White Manhood In Frank Yerby’S The Foxes Of Harrow 130
9. 5. Talk About The South: Unspeakable Things Unspoken In Zora Neale Hurston’S Seraph On The Suwanee 158
10. 6. The Unfinished Project Of Western Modernity: Savage Holiday, Moral Slaves, And The Problem Of Freedom In Cold War America 182
11. Conclusion 202
12. Notes 211
13. Works Cited 241
14. Index 257
15. About The Author 264