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Representing segregation toward an aesthetics of living Jim Crow, and other forms of racial division
Title
Representing segregation [electronic resource] : toward an aesthetics of living Jim Crow, and other forms of racial division / edited by Brian Norman and Piper Kendrix Williams.
ISBN
1438430345
9781438430348
1438430329 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1438430337 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9781438430324 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9781438430331 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Published
Albany : State University of New York Press, c2010. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2012)
Physical Description
1 online resource (xiii, 280 p. :) ill. ;
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Variant and related titles
Project MUSE - UPCC 2010 Current Complete Collection.
Project MUSE - UPCC 2010 Literature Collection.
Project MUSE - UPCC 2010-2012 Current Complete Collection Bundle.
UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 27, 2012
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
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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