LEADER 04972nam 2200781 a 450 001 9910454144103321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-283-21043-6 010 $a9786613210432 010 $a1-60473-311-X 035 $a(CKB)1000000000721937 035 $a(EBL)515649 035 $a(OCoLC)503441545 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000246434 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11221312 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000246434 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10188626 035 $a(PQKB)11165452 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000203778 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC515649 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse13723 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL515649 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10282569 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL321043 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000721937 100 $a20070715d2008 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aSitting in darkness$b[electronic resource] $eNew South fiction, education, and the rise of Jim Crow colonialism, 1865-1920 /$fPeter Schmidt 210 $aJackson $cUniversity Press of Mississippi$dc2008 215 $a1 online resource (272 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-934110-39-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 236-252) and index. 327 $aChanging views of post-Civil War Black education in the fiction of Lydia Maria Child, Ellwood Griest, and Constance Fenimore Woolson (1867-1878) -- A fool's education : Albion Tourge?e's A fool's errand, The invisible empire, and Bricks without straw (1879-1880) -- Of the people, by the people, and for the people : Frances E.W. Harper's cultural work in Iola Leroy (1892) -- Conflicted race nationalism : Sutton Griggs's Imperium in imperio (1899) -- Lynching and the liberal arts : rediscovering George Marion McClellan's Old Greenbottom Inn and other stories (1906) -- JIm Crow colonialism's dependancy model for "uplift": promotion and reaction -- Ghosts of Reconstruction : Samuel C. Armstrong, Booker T. Washington, and the disciplinary regimes of Jim Crow colonialism -- From planter paternalism to Uncle Sam's largesse abroad : Ellen M. Ingraham's Bond and free (1882) and Marietta Holley's Samantha at the St. Louis Exposition (1904) -- Counter-statements to Jim Crow colonialism : Mark Twain's "To the person sitting in darkness" (1901) and Aurelio Tolentino's Yesterday, today, and tomorrow (1905) -- Educating whites to be white on the global frontier : hypnotism and ambivalence in Thomas Dixon and Owen Wister (1900-1905) -- The dark archive: early twentieth-century critiques of Jim Crow colonialism by New South novelists -- The education of Walter Hines Page : a gentleman's disagreement with the New South in The Southerner, being the autobiography of "Nicholas Worth" (1909) -- Anti-colonial education? : W.E.B. Du Bois's Quest of the silver fleece (1911) and Darkwater (1920) -- Romancing multiracial democracy : George Washington Cable's Lovers of Louisiana (to-day) (1918). 330 $aSitting in Darkness explores how fiction of the Reconstruction and the New South intervenes in debates over black schools, citizen-building, Jim Crow discrimination, and U.S. foreign policy towards its territories and dependencies. The author urges a reexamination not only of the contents and formal innovations of New South literature but also its importance in U.S. literary history. Many rarely studied fiction authors (such as Ellwood Griest, Ellen Ingraham, George Marion McClellan, and Walter Hines Page) receive generous attention here, and well-known figures such as Albion Tourg--and--eacut 606 $aAmerican fiction$zSouthern States$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAfrican Americans in literature 606 $aEducation in literature 606 $aRace relations in literature 606 $aImperialism in literature 606 $aCitizenship in literature 606 $aReconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) in literature 606 $aLiterature and history$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aLiterature and history$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 607 $aSouthern States$xIn literature 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aAmerican fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAfrican Americans in literature. 615 0$aEducation in literature. 615 0$aRace relations in literature. 615 0$aImperialism in literature. 615 0$aCitizenship in literature. 615 0$aReconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) in literature. 615 0$aLiterature and history$xHistory 615 0$aLiterature and history$xHistory 676 $a813/.409896073075 700 $aSchmidt$b Peter$f1951 Dec. 23-$0972966 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910454144103321 996 $aSitting in darkness$92213577 997 $aUNINA