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Representing segregation : toward an aesthetics of living Jim Crow, and other forms of racial division
- Title
- Representing segregation : toward an aesthetics of living Jim Crow, and other forms of racial division / edited by Brian Norman and Piper Kendrix Williams.
- Publication
- Albany : State University of New York Press, c2010.
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- xiii, 280 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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
- Call Number
- Sc E 10-921
- ISBN
- 9781438430331 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 1438430337 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 9781438430324 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 1438430329 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2009022997
- OCLC
- 373561578
- Title
- Representing segregation : toward an aesthetics of living Jim Crow, and other forms of racial division / edited by Brian Norman and Piper Kendrix Williams.
- Imprint
- Albany : State University of New York Press, c2010.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- Norman, Brian, 1977-Williams, Piper Kendrix, 1972-
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 10-921