Representing segregation : toward an aesthetics of living Jim Crow, and other forms of racial division / edited by Brian Norman and Piper Kendrix Williams.

Other author Norman, Brian, 1977-
Other author Williams, Piper Kendrix, 1972-
Format Book
Publication InfoAlbany : State University of New York Press, ©2010.
Descriptionxiii, 280 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects
American literature--African American authors. --History and criticism.
American literature--20th century. --History and criticism.
Segregation in literature.
Race in literature.
African Americans in literature.
African Americans--Segregation. --Historiography.

Contents To lie, steal, and dissemble: the cultural work of the literature of segregation / Brian Norman and Piper Kendrix Williams -- In the ground, artist's statement / Shawn Michelle Smith -- American graffiti: the social life of segregation signs / Elizabeth Abel -- Smacked upside the head-again / Trudier Harris -- Wedded to the color line: Charles Chestnutt's stories of segregation / Tess Chakkalakal -- Charles Chestnutt's "The Dumb Witness" and the culture of segregation / Lori Robinson and Eric Wolfe -- "Those that do violence must expect to suffer": disrupting segregationist fictions of safety in Charles W. Chestnutt's "The Marrow of Tradition" / Birgit Brander Rasmussen -- 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 Anne Petry's "The Street" / Elizabeth Boyle Machlan -- Embodying segregation: Ida B. Wells and the cultural work of travel / Gary Totten -- Black is a region: segregation and American literacy regionalism in Richard Wright's "The Color Curtain" / Eve Dunbar -- "¿Qué Dice?": Latin America and the transnational in James Weldon Johnson's "Autobigraphy of an Ex-Coloured Man" and "Along this Way" / Ruth Blandón -- 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
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2009022997
ISBN9781438430331 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN1438430337 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN9781438430324 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN1438430329 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks PS153.B53 R47 2010 ✔ Available Place Hold