Living Jim Crow : the segregated town in mid-century Southern fiction /
Lennon, Gavan,
Living Jim Crow : the segregated town in mid-century Southern fiction / Gavan Lennon. - Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, (c)2020. - 1 online resource - Modern American literature and the new twentieth century .
Includes bibliographies and index.
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
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.
9781474461597 9781474461573
GBC1D4345 bnb
020077696 Uk
Segregation in literature.
Black people--Segregation--Southern States.
Small cities--In literature.
Electronic Books.
PN3352 / .L585 2020
Living Jim Crow : the segregated town in mid-century Southern fiction / Gavan Lennon. - Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, (c)2020. - 1 online resource - Modern American literature and the new twentieth century .
Includes bibliographies and index.
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
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.
9781474461597 9781474461573
GBC1D4345 bnb
020077696 Uk
Segregation in literature.
Black people--Segregation--Southern States.
Small cities--In literature.
Electronic Books.
PN3352 / .L585 2020