# Mr. Tourgée — A Voice from the South character guide

> Mr. Tourgée in A Voice from the South by Anna Julia Cooper.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Pactolus Prime, Tourgée

**First appearance:** 0011-one-phase-of-american-literature

## Snapshot

The novelist and activist behind Pactolus Prime, a white ally whose fiction on race the narrator probes for its insight and its limits.

## Who they are

He is the rare white writer who has staked real reputation on the Negro's cause, and the narrator credits that courage. Yet even his sympathetic imagination must be checked against the testimony of one who lives there. His work gives the early argument a concrete case study in how far advocacy can travel without firsthand experience.

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