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Sitting in darkness : New South fiction, education, and the rise of Jim Crow colonialism, 1865-1920 /
Sitting in Darkness explores how fiction of the Reconstruction and the New South intervenes in debates over black schools, citizen-building, Jim Crow discrimination, and U.S. foreign policy towards its territories and dependencies. The author urges a reexamination not only of the contents and formal...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Jackson :
University Press of Mississippi,
©2008.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Sitting in Darkness explores how fiction of the Reconstruction and the New South intervenes in debates over black schools, citizen-building, Jim Crow discrimination, and U.S. foreign policy towards its territories and dependencies. The author urges a reexamination not only of the contents and formal innovations of New South literature but also its importance in U.S. literary history. Many rarely studied fiction authors (such as Ellwood Griest, Ellen Ingraham, George Marion McClellan, and Walter Hines Page) receive generous attention here, and well-known figures such as Albion Tourg--and--eacut. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xii, 259 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 236-252) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781604733112 160473311X |