Sitting in darkness : New South fiction, education, and the rise of Jim Crow colonialism, 1865-1920 /

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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...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Schmidt, Peter, 1951 December 23-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, ©2008.
Temas:
1800-1999
American fiction > Southern States > History and criticism.
African Americans in literature.
Education in literature.
Race relations in literature.
Imperialism in literature.
Citizenship in literature.
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) in literature.
Literature and history > United States > History > 19th century.
Literature and history > United States > History > 20th century.
Roman américain > États-Unis (Sud) > Histoire et critique.
Noirs américains dans la littérature.
Éducation dans la littérature.
Relations raciales dans la littérature.
Impérialisme dans la littérature.
Littérature et histoire > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Littérature et histoire > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
African Americans in literature
American fiction
Citizenship in literature
Education in literature
Imperialism in literature
Literature
Literature and history
Race relations in literature
Reconstruction (United States : 1865-1877) in literature
Literatur
Bildung > Motiv
Imperialismus > Motiv
Rassendiskriminierung > Motiv
Erzählprosa > amerikanische > Südstaaten (USA) > Imperialismus.
Erzählprosa > amerikanische > Südstaaten (USA) > Geschichte.
Imperialismus > Erzählprosa > amerikanische > Südstaaten (USA)
Geschichte > Erzählprosa > amerikanische > Südstaaten (USA)
Rassenbeziehung (Motiv)
Southern States > In literature.
États-Unis (Sud) > Dans la littérature.
Southern States
United States
USA > Südstaaten
Schwarze (Motiv)
USA > Südstaaten (Motiv)
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Changing views of post-Civil War Black education in the fiction of Lydia Maria Child, Ellwood Griest, and Constance Fenimore Woolson (1867-1878)
  • A fool's education : Albion Tourgée's A fool's errand, The invisible empire, and Bricks without straw (1879-1880)
  • Of the people, by the people, and for the people : Frances E.W. Harper's cultural work in Iola Leroy (1892)
  • Conflicted race nationalism : Sutton Griggs's Imperium in imperio (1899)
  • Lynching and the liberal arts : rediscovering George Marion McClellan's Old Greenbottom Inn and other stories (1906)
  • JIm Crow colonialism's dependancy model for "uplift": promotion and reaction
  • Ghosts of Reconstruction : Samuel C. Armstrong, Booker T. Washington, and the disciplinary regimes of Jim Crow colonialism
  • From planter paternalism to Uncle Sam's largesse abroad : Ellen M. Ingraham's Bond and free (1882) and Marietta Holley's Samantha at the St. Louis Exposition (1904)
  • Counter-statements to Jim Crow colonialism : Mark Twain's "To the person sitting in darkness" (1901) and Aurelio Tolentino's Yesterday, today, and tomorrow (1905)
  • Educating whites to be white on the global frontier : hypnotism and ambivalence in Thomas Dixon and Owen Wister (1900-1905)
  • The dark archive: early twentieth-century critiques of Jim Crow colonialism by New South novelists
  • The education of Walter Hines Page : a gentleman's disagreement with the New South in The Southerner, being the autobiography of "Nicholas Worth" (1909)
  • Anti-colonial education? : W.E.B. Du Bois's Quest of the silver fleece (1911) and Darkwater (1920)
  • Romancing multiracial democracy : George Washington Cable's Lovers of Louisiana (to-day) (1918).

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