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Record Nr.

UNINA9910458365503321

Autore

Norman Brian <1977->

Titolo

Neo-segregation narratives [[electronic resource] ] : Jim Crow in post-civil rights American literature / / Brian Norman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Athens, : University of Georgia Press, 2010

ISBN

1-282-89207-X

9786612892073

0-8203-3735-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (227 p.)

Disciplina

810.9/896073

Soggetti

American literature - African American authors - History and criticism

American literature - 20th century - History and criticism

African Americans in literature

Segregation in literature

Race discrimination in literature

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : Jim Crow then : the emergence of neo-segregation narratives -- Jim Crow Jr. : Lorraine Hansberry's "Late segregation revisions" and Toni Morrison's "Early post-civil rights ambivalence" -- Jim Crow returns, Jim Crow remains : gender and segregation in David Bradley's "The Chaneysville incident" and Alice Walker's "The color purple" -- Jim too : black blackface minstrelsy in Wesley Brown's "Darktown strutters" and Spike Lee's "Bamboozled" -- Jim Crow in Idaho : clarifying blackness in multiethnic fiction -- Jim Crow Faulkner : Suzan-Lori Parks digs up the past, again -- Epilogue : Jim Crow today : when Jim Crow is but should not be.