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Jim Crow, Literature, and the Legacy of Sutton E. Griggs /

Imperium in Imperio (1899) was the first black novel to countenance openly the possibility of organized black violence against Jim Crow segregation. Its author, a Baptist minister and newspaper editor from Texas, Sutton E. Griggs (1872-1933), would go on to publish four more novels; establish his ow...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2013
Colección:New southern studies.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction / Tess Chakkalakal and Kenneth W. Warren
  • Sutton Griggs and the borderlands of empire / Caroline Levander
  • Empires at home and abroad in Sutton E. Griggs's Imperium in Imperio / John Gruesser
  • Edward Everett Hale's and Sutton E. Griggs's Men without a country / Robert S. Levine
  • Moving up a dead-end ladder : black class mobility, death, and narrative closure in Sutton Griggs's Overshadowed / Andreá N. Williams
  • Social Darwinism, American imperialism, and the origins of the science of collective effciency in Sutton E. Griggs's Unfettered / Finnie Coleman
  • Reading in Sutton E. Griggs / Tess Chakkalakal
  • Sutton E. Griggs against Thomas Dixon's "Vile ,isrepresentations" : The hindered hand and The leopard's spots / Hanna Wallinger
  • Harnessing the Niagara : Sutton E. Griggs's The hindered hand / John Ernest
  • Jim Crow and the house of fiction : Charles W. Chesnutt's and Sutton E. Griggs's last novels / M. Giulia Fabi
  • Perfecting the political romance : the last novel of Sutton Griggs / Kenneth W. Warren
  • Chronology : the life and times of Sutton E. Griggs
  • Selected bibliography
  • Contributors
  • Index.