03383nam 2200661 a 450 991078609490332120230803025026.01-62103-053-9(CKB)2670000000316549(EBL)1105229(OCoLC)808108920(SSID)ssj0000803507(PQKBManifestationID)11957594(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000803507(PQKBWorkID)10810565(PQKB)11059563(StDuBDS)EDZ0000204098(MiAaPQ)EBC1105229(MdBmJHUP)muse25626(MiAaPQ)EBC4977768(Au-PeEL)EBL1105229(CaPaEBR)ebr10642020(Au-PeEL)EBL4977768(CaONFJC)MIL423484(OCoLC)1024245579(EXLCZ)99267000000031654920120820d2013 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrCivil rights in the white literary imagination[electronic resource] innocence by association /Jonathan W. GrayJackson University Press of Mississippic20131 online resource (175 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-61703-649-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 CitedIndexA; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; V; W; Y 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 reaAmerican literatureWhite authorsHistory and criticismCivil rights in literatureRace relations in literatureAfrican AmericansCivil rightsHistory20th centuryAmerican literatureWhite authorsHistory and criticism.Civil rights in literature.Race relations in literature.African AmericansCivil rightsHistory810.9/3520396073Gray Jonathan W1548375MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910786094903321Civil rights in the white literary imagination3805357UNINA