Living Jim Crow : the segregated town in mid-century Southern fiction /

Analysing the ubiquity of the small town in fiction of the mid-century US South, Living Jim Crow is the first extended scholarly study to explore how authors mobilised this setting as a tool for racial resistance.

Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Lennon, Gavan (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2020]
Collection:Modern American literature and the new twentieth century.
Sujets:
Segregation in literature.
Black people > Segregation > Southern States.
Small cities > In literature.
Ségrégation dans la littérature.
Petites villes > Dans la littérature.
FICTION > African American > General.
Black people > Segregation
Segregation in literature
Villes > Dans la littérature.
Racisme > Dans la littérature.
Ségrégation > Dans la littérature.
Roman américain > États-Unis > États-Unis (sud) > 1945-1970 > Thèmes, motifs.
Southern States
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Intro
  • Living Jim Crow
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction: Uncovering a Poetics of Protest
  • 1 Creators of the Small Town: Anthropology, Racial Etiquette and African American Fiction in the 193
  • 2 The White Town/Coloured Town Paradigm: Lillian Smith's Maxwell
  • 3 An Anatomy of Critique: Byron Herbert Reece's Tilden
  • 4 The Milan Cycle: Carson McCullers's Milan
  • 5 Breaking the Pencil: William Faulkner's Jefferson
  • 6 Knowing How to Curse: William Melvin Kelley's Sutton
  • Conclusion: (De)Generative Ground: The Field and the Segregated Town
  • Notes

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