Representing segregation : toward an aesthetics of living Jim Crow, and other forms of racial division / / edited by Brian Norman and Piper Kendrix Williams

• Pubblicazione: Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2010
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (296 p.)
• Disciplina: 810.9/896073
• Soggetto topico: American literature - African American authors - History and criticism; American literature - 20th century - History and criticism; Segregation in literature; Race in literature; African Americans in literature; African Americans - Segregation - Historiography
• Classificazione: 18.06
• Altri autori: NormanBrian <1977-> WilliamsPiper Kendrix <1972->
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Foreword / Jocelyn Moody -- Introduction. To lie, steal, and dissemble: the cultural work of the literature of segregation / Brian Norman and Piper Kendrix Williams ; In the crowd, artist's statement / Shawn Michelle Smith -- Section I: The aesthetic challenges of Jim Crow politics. American graffiti: the social life of segregation signs / Elizabeth Abel ; Smacked upside the head-again / Trudier Harris -- Section II: Imagining and subverting Jim Crow in Charles Chesnutt's segregation fiction. Wedded to the color line: Charles Chesnutt's stories of segregation / Tess Chakkalakal ; Charles Chesnutt's "The Dumb Witness" and the culture of segregation / Lori Robison and Eric Wolfe ; "Those that do violence must expect to suffer": disrupting segregationist fictions of safety in Charles W. Chesnutt's "The Marrow of Tradition" / Birgit Brander Rasmussen -- Section III: Inside Jim Crow and his doubles. White islands of safety and engulfing blackness: remapping segregation in Angelina Weld Grimke's "Blackness" and "Goldie" / Anne P. Rice ; "Somewhat like war": the aesthetics of segregation, black liberation, and "A Raisin in the Sun" / Michelle Y. Gordon ; Housing the black body: value, domestic space, and segregation narratives / GerShun Avilez ; Diseased properties and broken homes in Ann Petry's "The Street" / Elizabeth Boyle Machlan -- Section IV: Exporting Jim Crow. Embodying segregation: Ida B. Wells and the cultural work of travel / Gary Totten ; Black is a region: segregation and American literary regionalism in Richard Wright's "The Color Curtain" / Eve Dunbar ; "Que Dice?": Latin America and the transnational in James Weldon Johnson's "Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man" and "Along this Way" / Ruth Blandón -- Section V: Jim Crow's legacy. In possession of space: abolitionist memory and spatial transformation in civil rights literature and photography / Zoe Trodd ; Into a burning house: representing segregation's death / Vince Schleitwiler -- Afterword / Cheryl A. Wall -- Afterword . Cheryl A. Wall.
• Sommario/riassunto: Examines racial segregation in literature and the cultural legacy of the Jim Crow era.
• Titolo autorizzato: Representing segregation
• ISBN: 9781438430348; 1438430345; 9781441648785; 144164878X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910953645003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II