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Liminal Whiteness in Early US Fiction | Hannah Lauren Murray

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Hannah Lauren Murray shows that early US authors repeatedly imagined lost, challenged and negated White racial identity in the new nation. In a Critical Whiteness reading of canonical and lesser-known texts from Charles Brockden Brown to Frank J. Webb, Murray argues that White characters on the border between life and death were liminal presences that disturbed prescriptions of racial belonging in the early US. Fears of losing Whiteness were routinely channelled through the language of liminality, in a precursor to today's White anxieties of marginalisation and minoritisation.

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Liminal Whiteness in Early US Fiction | Hannah Lauren Murray

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Murray‘s study of very early American writers looks at white racial identity and fears of losing whiteness in the new nation in both canonical and obscure fiction, but ultimately becomes about current white American racial anxieties. She suggests that white characters hovering between life and death challenged fixed racial categories. Enlightening and well written

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Liminal Whiteness in Early US Fiction | Hannah Lauren Murray

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