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 cliche. Civil Rights in the White Literary Imagination seeks to determine how, exactly, the movement affected four iconic American writers: Robert Penn Warren, Norman Mailer, Eudora Welt...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Gray, Jonathan W.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2013.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Race relations in literature.
Civil rights in literature.
American literature > White authors.
African Americans > Civil rights.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Noirs americains > Droits > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Relations raciales dans la litterature.
Droits de l'homme dans la litterature.
Litterature americaine > Auteurs blancs > Histoire et critique.
African Americans > Civil rights > History > 20th century.
American literature > White authors > History and criticism.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
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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