Dividing Lines - Class Anxiety and Postbellum Black Fiction

One of the most extensive studies of class in 19th-century African American literature to date, Dividing Lines unveils how black fiction writers represented the uneasy relationship between class differences, racial solidarity, and the quest for civil rights in black communities. The book argues that the signs of class anxiety are embedded in postbellum fiction.

Summary

Provides fresh insights on the intersection of race and class in black fiction from the 1880s to 1900s

Product details

• Authors: Andrea Williams, Andrea N. Williams
• Publisher: University Of Michigan Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.08.2016
• EAN: 9780472036745
• ISBN: 978-0-472-03674-5
• No. of pages: 232
• Series: Class: Culture (Paperback); Class: Culture; Class : Culture
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies