Category: veronica watson

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+ Pedagogy, syllabus, veronica watson, white estrangement, white supremacy

“Literature of White Estrangement” Syllabus

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Over the course of the last few years, my work has continually focused on the ways that African American authors confront and engage with whiteness through the use of white characters in predominantly white texts. This started when I began to read Frank Yerby’s work, notably his early “costume novels” like The Foxes of Harrow or The Vixens. As my research expanded to comics, specifically looking at … Read More “Literature of White Estrangement” Syllabus

+ anderson rouse, catherine adams, donna-lyn washington, frank yerby, gene andrew jarrett, guirdex masse, john lowe, katoya ellis fleming, oxford american, rediscovering frank yerby, Stephanie brown, the short stories of frank yerby, university press of mississippi, veronica watson

“Rediscovering Frank Yerby” Introduction

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If you have been following my blog over the past few years, you have seen a lot of my work on Frank Yerby. That work has led to the publication of Rediscovering Frank Yerby: Critical Essays, a collection of essays that seeks to, as the title says, rediscover and reorient Yerby within the African American and American literary tradition. Pubisher’s Weekly review of the … Read More “Rediscovering Frank Yerby” Introduction

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