Civil rights in the White literary imagination : innocence by association /

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The statement, ""The Civil Rights Movement changed America, "" though true, has become something of a cliché. Civil rights in the White Literary Imagination seeks to determine how, exactly, the Civil Rights Movement changed the literary possibilities of four iconic American writ...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Gray, Jonathan W.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, ©2013.
Temas:
1900-1999
American literature > White authors > History and criticism.
Civil rights in literature.
Race relations in literature.
African Americans > Civil rights > History > 20th century.
Littérature américaine > Auteurs blancs > Histoire et critique.
Droits de l'homme dans la littérature.
Relations raciales dans la littérature.
Noirs américains > Droits > Histoire > 20e siècle.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
African Americans > Civil rights
American literature > White authors
Civil rights in literature
Race relations in literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Perfect unions: Innocence and exceptionalism in American literary discourse
  • "The look back home from a long distance": Robert Penn Warren and the limits of historical responsibility
  • The apocalyptic hipster: "the white negro" and Norman Mailer's achievement of style
  • "The whole heart of fiction": Eudora Welty inside the closed society
  • "Negroes, and blood, and horror": William Styron, existential freedom, and The confessions of Nat Turner
  • Epilogue: perfecting innocence.

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