Living Jim Crow : the segregated town in mid-century Southern fiction /
Gavan Lennon.
Bok Engelsk 2020 · Electronic books.
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| Utgitt | Edinburgh University Press
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (vii, 251 pages) : : digital, PDF file(s).
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| Opplysninger | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 13 Oct 2020).. - Intro -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- Introduction: Uncovering a Poetics of Protest -- Creators of the Small Town: Anthropology, Racial Etiquette and African American Fiction in the 1930s -- The White Town/ Coloured Town Paradigm: Lillian Smith's Maxwell -- An Anatomy of Critique: Byron Herbert Reece's Tilden -- The Milan Cycle: Carson McCullers's Milan -- Breaking the Pencil: William Faulkner's Jefferson -- Knowing How to Curse: William Melvin Kelley's Sutton -- Conclusion: (De)Generative Ground - The Field and the Segregated Town.. - 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.
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| ISBN | 1-4744-6159-X
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