TY  - BOOK
AU  - Chakkalakal,Tess
AU  - Warren,Kenneth W.
TI  - Jim Crow, Literature, and the Legacy of Sutton E. Griggs
T2  - The New Southern Studies
SN  - 9780820346304
AV  - PS3513 .J563 2013
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Athens
PB  - University of Georgia Press
KW  - Griggs, Sutton E.
KW  - Race relations in literature
KW  - Griggs, Sutton E. (Sutton Elbert), 1872-1933
KW  - Criticism and interpretation
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Sutton Griggs and the Borderlands of Empire; Empires at Home and Abroad in Sutton E. Griggs's Imperium in Imperio; Edward Everett Hale's and Sutton E. Griggs's Men without a Country; Moving Up a Dead-End Ladder: Black Class Mobility, Death, and Narrative Closure in Sutton Griggs's Overshadowed; Social Darwinism, American Imperialism, and the Origins of the Science of Collective Efficiency in Sutton E. Griggs's Unfettered; Reading in Sutton E. Griggs; Sutton E. Griggs against Thomas Dixon's "Vile Misrepresentations": The Hindered Hand and The Leopard's SpotsHarnessing the Niagara: Sutton E. Griggs's The Hindered Hand; Jim Crow and the House of Fiction: Charles W. Chesnutt's and Sutton E. Griggs's Last Novels; Perfecting the Political Romance: The Last Novel of Sutton Griggs; Chronology: The Life and Times of Sutton E. Griggs; Selected Bibliography; Contributors; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z; 2; b
N2  - Imperium in Imperio (1899) was the first black novel to countenance openly the possibility of organized black violence against Jim Crow segregation. Its author, a Baptist minister and newspaper editor from Texas, Sutton E. Griggs (1872-1933), would go on to publish four more novels; establish his own publishing company, one of the first secular publishing houses owned and operated by an African American in the United States; and help to found the American Baptist Theological Seminary in Tennessee. Alongside W.E.B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington, Griggs was a key political and literary voic
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