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Representing segregation :

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Representing segregation :

[Book]

toward an aesthetics of living Jim Crow, and other forms of racial division /

edited by Brian Norman and Piper Kendrix Williams.

Albany :

State University of New York Press,

©2010.

1 online resource (xiii, 280 pages) :

illustrations

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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Representing segregation.

9781438430331

African Americans in literature.

African Americans-- Segregation-- Historiography.

American literature-- 20th century-- History and criticism.

American literature-- African American authors-- History and criticism.

Race in literature.

Segregation in literature.

African Americans in literature

American literature

American literature-- African American authors

LITERARY CRITICISM-- American-- General.

Race in literature

Segregation in literature

LIT-- 004020

Norman, Brian,1977-

Williams, Piper Kendrix,1972-

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