Record Nr.

UNINA9910786094903321

Autore

Gray Jonathan W

Titolo

Civil rights in the white literary imagination [[electronic resource] ] : innocence by association / / Jonathan W. Gray

Pubbl/distr/stampa


Jackson, : University Press of Mississippi, c2013

ISBN

1-62103-053-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (175 p.)

Disciplina

810.9/3520396073

Soggetti

American literature - White authors - History and criticism

Civil rights in literature

Race relations in literature

African Americans - Civil rights - History - 20th century

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

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: PERFECT UNIONS: Innocence and Exceptionalism in American Literary Discourse; Chapter One: "THE LOOK BACK HOME FROM A LONG DISTANCE": Robert Penn Warren and the Limits of Historical Responsibility; Chapter Two: THE APOCALYPTIC HIPSTER: "The White Negro" and Norman Mailer's Achievement of Style; Chapter Three: "THE WHOLE HEART OF FICTION": Eudora Welty inside the Closed Society; Chapter Four: "NEGROES, AND BLOOD, AND HORROR": William Styron, Existential Freedom, and The Confessions of Nat Turner; Epilogue: PERFECTING INNOCENCE; Notes; Works Cited

IndexA; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; V; W; Y

Sommario/riassunto

The statement, ""The Civil Rights Movement changed America,"" though true, has become something of a cliché. Civil rights in the White Literary Imagination seeks to determine how, exactly, the Civil Rights Movement changed the literary possibilities of four iconic American writers: Robert Penn Warren, Norman Mailer, Eudora Welty, and William Styron. Each of these writers published significant works prior to the Brown v. Board of Education case in 1954 and the Montgomery Bus Boycott that began in December of the following year, making it possible to trace their evolution in rea