03100nam 2200661Ia 450 991077768360332120230207224651.0979-88-908697-0-80-8078-7602-X(CKB)1000000000456651(EBL)880217(OCoLC)823382321(SSID)ssj0000248979(PQKBManifestationID)11194250(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000248979(PQKBWorkID)10205224(PQKB)11406652(Au-PeEL)EBL880217(CaPaEBR)ebr10116539(CaONFJC)MIL929933(MiAaPQ)EBC880217(EXLCZ)99100000000045665119990120d1999 ub 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrThe South in Black and white[electronic resource] race, sex, and literature in the 1940s /McKay JenkinsChapel Hill University of North Carolina Pressc19991 online resource (186 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8078-4777-1 0-8078-2491-7 Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-212) and index.Cover Page; The South in Black and White; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter One Moving among the Living as Ghosts; Chapter Two Private Violence Desirable; Chapter Three Men of Honor and Pygmy Tribes; Chapter Four I Know the Fears by Heart; Chapter Five The Sadness Made Her Feel Queer; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; IndexIf the nation as a whole during the 1940's was halfway between the Great Depression of the 1930's and the postwar prosperity of the 1950's, the South found itself struggling through an additional transition, one bound up in an often violent reworking of its own sense of history and regional identity. Examining the changing nature of racial politics in the 1940's, McKay Jenkins measures its impact on white Southern literature, history, and culture. Jenkins focuses on four white Southern writers--W. J. Cash, William Alexander Percy, Lillian Smith, and Carson McCullersAmerican literatureSouthern StatesHistory and criticismLiterature and societySouthern StatesHistory20th centuryAfrican Americans in literatureRace in literatureSex in literatureSouthern StatesRace relationsHistoriographySouthern StatesIntellectual life1865-American literatureHistory and criticism.Literature and societyHistoryAfrican Americans in literature.Race in literature.Sex in literature.810.9/975/09044Jenkins McKay1963-1247447MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910777683603321The South in Black and white3817676UNINA