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"Welty's White Girlhoods In/As History".

The article reexamines the representations of southern white girls in Eudora Welty's fiction from the ahistorical view of contemporary critics. Topics discussed include racial blindness as an oppressive aspect of whiteness, disruption of a girl's pre-pubescent first love, middle-class vision and inc...

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Published in:Women's Studies Vol. 53; no. 2; pp. 186 - 208
Main Author: Henninger, Katherine
Format: Article
Published: Taylor & Francis Ltd Mar2024
Subjects:
Racial identity of white people
Welty, Eudora, 1909-2001
White women
Racism
Social classes
Feminine identity
White supremacy
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