Neo-segregation narratives : Jim Crow in post-civil rights American literature /

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This study of what Brian Norman terms a neo-segregation narrative tradition examines literary depictions of life under Jim Crow that were written well after the civil rights movement.; From Toni Morrison's first novel, The Bluest Eye, to bestselling black fiction of the 1980s to a string of rec...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Norman, Brian, 1977-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Athens : University of Georgia Press, ©2010.
Subjects:
1900-1999
American literature > African American authors > History and criticism.
American literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
African Americans in literature.
Segregation in literature.
Race discrimination in literature.
Littérature américaine > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Noirs américains dans la littérature.
Ségrégation dans la littérature.
Discrimination raciale dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > African American Studies.
American literature.
American literature > African American authors.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction. Jim Crow then: the emergence of neo-segregation narratives
  • Jim Crow Jr.: Lorraine Hansberry's late segregation revisions and Toni Morrison's early post-civil rights ambivalence
  • Jim Crow returns, Jim Crow remains: gender and segregation in David Bradley's The Chaneysville incident and Alice Walker's The color purple
  • Jim too: black blackface minstrelsy in Wesley Brown's Darktown strutters and Spike Lee's Bamboozled
  • Jim Crow in Idaho: clarifying blackness in multiethnic fiction
  • Jim Crow Faulkner: Suzan-Lori Parks digs up the past, again
  • Epilogue. Jim Crow today: when Jim Crow is but should not be.

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