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

By:

Lennon, Gavan [Author]

Material type: Text

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781474461597
9781474461573

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LOC classification:

PN3352 .L585 2020

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Contents:

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

Subject: 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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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.

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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