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Author Lennon, Gavan, author.

Title Living Jim Crow : the segregated town in mid-century Southern fiction / Gavan Lennon.

Publication Info. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2020]
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Description 1 online resource.
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series Modern American literature and the new twentieth century
Modern American literature and the new twentieth century.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary 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.
Contents Intro -- Living Jim Crow -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Uncovering a Poetics of Protest -- 1 Creators of the Small Town: Anthropology, Racial Etiquette and African American Fiction in the 193 -- 2 The White Town/Coloured Town Paradigm: Lillian Smith's Maxwell -- 3 An Anatomy of Critique: Byron Herbert Reece's Tilden -- 4 The Milan Cycle: Carson McCullers's Milan -- 5 Breaking the Pencil: William Faulkner's Jefferson -- 6 Knowing How to Curse: William Melvin Kelley's Sutton -- Conclusion: (De)Generative Ground: The Field and the Segregated Town -- Notes
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Subject Segregation in literature.
Segregation in literature.
Black people -- Segregation -- Southern States.
Black people -- Segregation.
Southern States.
Small cities -- In literature.
Small cities.
FICTION -- African American -- General.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Other Form: Print version: Lennon, Gavan. Living Jim Crow. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2020] 1474461573 9781474461573 (OCoLC)1117519053
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