Dividing Lines : Class Anxiety and Postbellum Black Fiction /

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The author explores how African American literature in the late 19th century represents class divisions among Black Americans. By portraying complex, highly stratified communities with a growing Black middle class, authors dispelled popular notions that Black Americans were uniformly poor or uncivil...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Williams, Andreá N.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2012]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Social status in literature.
Social classes in literature.
American fiction > African American authors.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Social Classes.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Statut social dans la litterature.
Classes sociales dans la litterature.
Roman americain > Auteurs noirs americains > Histoire et critique.
American fiction > African American authors > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : Contending classes, dividing lines
  • The language of class : taxonomy and respectability in Frances E.W. Harper's Trial and triumph and Iola Leroy
  • Working through class : the Black body, labor, and leisure in Sutton Griggs's Overshadowed
  • Mapping class difference : space and social mobility in Paul L. Dunbar's short fiction
  • Blood and the mark of class : Pauline Hopkins's genealogies of status
  • Classing the color line : class-passing, antiracism, and Charles W. Chesnutt
  • Epilogue : beyond the talented tenth.

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