Abstract
The chapter addresses the ethnically marked white characters in the novels, which includes Irish, Jewish, and ethnically mixed white peo-ple. These figures are pointedly not meant to stand as Everymen for the reader to identify with. Like the African-American characters, they are meant to bolster the wholesomeness of the protagonists. Irish American Á fire-fighters Á anti-Semitism Á mixed-race Á exoticism In Falling Man (DeLillo 2007) a mother and a grandmother discuss a young boy's use of blank paper when drawing to indicate flesh tones, rather than shading them in:
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Bell, L. (2017). Off-White Crayons: Ethnically Marked White Characters. In The “Other” In 9/11 Literature (pp. 93–114). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50844-3_5
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