Cambridge Companion to American Civil Rights Literature

This Companion brings together leading scholars to examine the significant traditions, genres, and themes of civil rights literature.

List of contents

1. The civil rights movement and the literature of social protest Zoe Trodd; 2. The dilemma of narrating Jim Crow Brian Norman; 3. The Black Arts movement GerShun Avilez; 4. Drama and performance from civil rights to Black Arts Nilgün Anadolu-Okur; 5. Civil rights movement fiction Julie Buckner Armstrong; 6. The white Southern novel and the civil rights movement Christopher Metress; 7. Civil rights fictional film Sharon Monteith; 8. Civil rights movement poetry Jeffrey Lamar Coleman; 9. Gender, sex, and civil rights Robert J. Patterson; 10. Twenty-first-century literature: post-black? Post-civil rights? Barbara McCaskill.

About the author

Julie Buckner Armstrong is Professor of English at the University of South Florida, St Petersburg. She is the author of Mary Turner and the Memory of Lynching and editor of The Civil Rights Reader: American Literature from Jim Crow to Reconciliation. Armstrong has also contributed to such journals as the African American Review, Mississippi Quarterly, MELUS, Southern Quarterly, the Flannery O'Connor Review and Georgia Historical Quarterly.

Summary

The Cambridge Companion to American Civil Rights Literature brings together leading scholars to examine the significant traditions, genres, and themes of civil rights literature. Accessible to undergraduates and academics alike, this Companion surveys the critical landscape of a rapidly growing field and lays the foundation for future studies.

Product details

• Authors: Julie Armstrong
• Assisted by: Julie Armstrong (Editor), Armstrong Julie (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 02.03.2015
• EAN: 9781107059832
• ISBN: 978-1-107-05983-2
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: Cambridge Companions to Literature; Cambridge Companions to Literature
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Ethnic Studies, English, Social & cultural history, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Literature: history & criticism, United States of America, USA, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Civics and citizenship