LEADER 03383nam 2200661 a 450 001 9910821609103321 005 20230803025026.0 010 $a1-62103-053-9 035 $a(CKB)2670000000316549 035 $a(EBL)1105229 035 $a(OCoLC)808108920 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000803507 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11957594 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000803507 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10810565 035 $a(PQKB)11059563 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000204098 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1105229 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse25626 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4977768 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1105229 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10642020 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4977768 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL423484 035 $a(OCoLC)1024245579 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000316549 100 $a20120820d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aCivil rights in the white literary imagination$b[electronic resource] $einnocence by association /$fJonathan W. Gray 210 $aJackson $cUniversity Press of Mississippi$dc2013 215 $a1 online resource (175 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-61703-649-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover; 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 327 $aIndexA; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; V; W; Y 330 $a The statement, ""The Civil Rights Movement changed America,"" though true, has become something of a cliche?. 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 606 $aAmerican literature$xWhite authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aCivil rights in literature 606 $aRace relations in literature 606 $aAfrican Americans$xCivil rights$xHistory$y20th century 615 0$aAmerican literature$xWhite authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aCivil rights in literature. 615 0$aRace relations in literature. 615 0$aAfrican Americans$xCivil rights$xHistory 676 $a810.9/3520396073 700 $aGray$b Jonathan W$01613216 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910821609103321 996 $aCivil rights in the white literary imagination$93942384 997 $aUNINA