Afro-Realisms and the Romances of Race

Winner of the SAMLA Studies Award Honorable Mention for the MLA William Sanders Scarborough Prize From the 1880s to the early 1900s, a particularly turbulent period of U.S. race relations, the African American novel provided a powerful counternarrative to dominant and pejorative ideas about blackness. In Afro­-Realisms and the Romances of Race , Melissa Daniels-­Rauterkus uncovers how black and white writers experimented with innovative narrative strategies to revise static and stereotypical vie