Living Jim Crow - The Segregated Town in Mid-Century Southern Fiction

Informationen zum Autor Gavan Lennon is Senior Lecturer in American Literature and Culture at Canterbury Christ Church University. Klappentext Explores how novelists of the mid-century US South invented small towns to aesthetically undermine racial segregation Analysing the ubiquity of the small town in fiction of the mid-century US South, Living Jim Crow is the first extended scholarly study to explore how authors mobilised this setting as a tool for racial resistance. With innovative close readings of Zora Neale Hurston, Richard Wright, Lillian Smith, Byron Herbert Reece, Carson McCullers, William Faulkner and William Melvin Kelley, the book traces the relationship between activism and aesthetics during the long civil rights movement. Lennon reframes a narrative of southern literature during the period as one characterised by an aesthetics of protest, identifying a new mode of reading racial resistance and the US South. Gavan Lennon is Senior Lecturer in American Literature and Culture at Canterbury Christ Church University. Zusammenfassung Analysing the ubiquity of the small town in fiction of the mid-century US South, Living Jim Crow is the first extended scholarly study to explore how authors mobilised this setting as a tool for racial resistance.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Gavan Lennon, Gavan (Senior Lecturer in American Literat Lennon, LENNON GAVAN
• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 31.05.2022
• EAN: 9781474461580
• ISBN: 978-1-4744-6158-0
• Seiten: 264
• Serien: Modern American Literature and the New Twentieth Century; Modern American Literature
• Themen: Belletristik > Erzählende Literatur; Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft