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City University of New York - City College
Seeing Whiteness: the Progression and Regression of White Identity in Four Post-Civil War Literary Generations
Abstract
dc:description.abstract<p>This thesis explores the concept of white identity as seen in literary works in four time periods: Reconstruction, the Great Depression, the Civil Rights Movement and the 21st century. It examines the work of Mark Twain, William Faulkner, Kurt Vonnegut and contemporary writers George Saunders, J.D. Vance, and Jonathan Franzen. It seeks to understand patterns in racism, white nationalism, and white supremacy as part of the fundamental construct of the literary white man, and follows the evolution of that construct over time. </p>
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Master of Arts (M.A.)
- Level thesis:degree_level
- Thesis
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- English
- Year dc:date.available
- 2018
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Stone, Sara N
- Contributors dc:contributor
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- Robert Higney
Subjects
dc:subject × 7Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Repository record dc:identifier
- https://academicworks.cuny.edu/cc_etds_theses/1078
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:academicworks.cuny.edu:cc_etds_theses-1747