White writers, race matters : fictions of racial liberalism from Stowe to Stockett / by Jay, Gregory S.

Table of Contents: “…Sympathy in action: Stowe, Twain, and the origins of liberal race fiction -- How it feels to be a trade-mark: Fannie Hurst's Imitation of life -- Jew like me: empathy and antisemitism in Laura Zametkin Hobson's Gentleman;s agreement -- Desegregating liberalism: radical identifications in lillian Smith's Strange fruit and Killers of the dream -- Queer children and representative men: Harper Lee's To kill a mockingbird -- Speaking of abjection: white writing and black resistance in Kathryn Stockett's The help.…”