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000776143 1001_ $$aWonham, Henry B.,$$d1960-
000776143 24510 $$aPlaying the races :$$bethnic caricature and American literary realism /$$cHenry B. Wonham.
000776143 260__ $$aNew York :$$bOxford University Press,$$c2004.
000776143 300__ $$aviii, 196 pages :$$billustrations ;$$c25 cm
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000776143 337__ $$aunmediated$$bn$$2rdamedia
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000776143 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 173-192) and index.
000776143 5050_ $$aIntroduction: the age of caricature, the age of realism -- William Dean Howells and the touch of exaggeration which typifies -- "I want a real coon": Twain and ethnic caricature -- A Jamesian art to be cultivated -- Edith Wharton's flamboyant copy -- The "curious realism" of Charles Chesnutt.
000776143 5201_ $$a"Why did so many of the writers who aligned themselves with the social and aesthetic aims of American literary realism rely on stock conventions of ethnic caricature in their treatment of immigrant and African-American figures? As a self-described "tool of the democratic spirit," designed to "prick the bubble of abstract types," literary realism would seem to have little in common with the aggressively dehumanizing comic imagery that began to proliferate in magazines and newspapers after the Civil War." "Yet if literary realism pursued the interests of democracy by affirming "the equality of things and the unity of men," why did its major practitioners regularly employ comic typification as a feature of their representational practice? Critics have often dismissed such apparent lapses in realist practice as blind spots, vestiges of a genteel social consciousness that failed to keep pace with realism's avowed democratic aspirations. Such explanations are useful to a point, but they overlook the fact that the age of realism in American art and letters was simultaneously the great age of ethnic caricature. Henry B. Wonham argues that these two aesthetic programs, one committed to representation of the fully humanized individual, the other invested in broad ethnic abstractions, operate less as antithetical choices than as complementary impulses, both of which receive full play within the period's most demanding literary and graphic works. The seemingly anomalous presence of gross ethnic abstractions within works by Howells, Mark Twain, Henry James, Edith Wharton, and Charles Chesnutt hints at realism's vexed and complicated relationship with the caricatured ethnic images that played a central role in late nineteenth-century American thinking about race, identity, and national culture."--Jacket.
000776143 650_0 $$aAmerican fiction$$y19th century$$xHistory and criticism.
000776143 650_0 $$aRace in literature.
000776143 650_0 $$aCaricatures and cartoons$$zUnited States$$xHistory$$y19th century.
000776143 650_0 $$aStereotypes (Social psychology) in literature.
000776143 650_0 $$aEthnicity in literature.
000776143 650_0 $$aRealism in literature.
000776143 651_0 $$aUnited States$$xEthnic relations$$xHistory$$y19th century.
000776143 651_0 $$aUnited States$$xRace relations$$xHistory$$y19th century.
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