Gavan Lennon

Living Jim Crow

The Segregated Town in Mid-Century Southern Fiction

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Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Modern American Literature and the New Twentieth Century
• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Juli 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 142mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 448g
• ISBN-13: 9781474461573
• ISBN-10: 1474461573
• Artikelnr.: 59411564

Autorenporträt

Gavan Lennon is Senior Lecturer in American Literature and Culture at Canterbury Christ Church University.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction: Uncovering a Poetics of Protest
1. Creators of the Small Town: Anthropology, Racial Etiquette, and African American Fiction in the 1930s
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' 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
Index.