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One Phase of American Literature
The Negro as presented in American literature
A book-by-book review of how white authors draw Black characters — Harriet Beecher Stowe's humility, Howells's surface sketches, Albion Tourgée's advocacy, George Washington Cable's rare fairness — measuring each against the truth, and concluding that the Black man's portrait must finally be painted from within.
The Negro in white fictionStowe, Howells, Tourgée, and Cable weighedCaricature versus portraitureA literature of the race by the race