Research Catalog

Title

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

Author

Lennon, Gavan

Publication

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2020]

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Details

Description

vii, 251 pages; 22 cm.

Summary

• "Explores how novelists of the mid-century US South invented small towns to aesthetically undermine racial segregation" -- Back cover
• "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. With innovative close readings of Zora Neale Hurston, Richard Wright, Lillian Smith, Byron Herbert Reece, Carson McCullers, William Faulkner and William Melvin Kelley, the book traces the relationship between activism and aesthetics during the long civil rights movement. Lennon reframes a narrative of southern literature during the period as one as one characterised by an aesthetics of protest, identifying a new mode of reading racial resistance and the US South." -- Back cover.

Series Statement

Modern American literature and the new twentieth century

Uniform Title

Modern American literature and the new twentieth century.

Subject

• 1900-1999
• American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism
• African Americans in literature
• Civil rights in literature
• Racism in literature
• Cities and towns in literature
• American fiction
• Literature
• Southern States > In literature
• Southern States

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 236-247) and index.

Contents

Introduction : Uncovering a poetics of protest -- Creators of the small town : anthropology, racial etiquette and African American fiction in the 1930s -- The White town/Coloured town paradigm : Lillian Smith's Maxwell -- An anatomy of critique : Byron Herbert Reece's Tilden -- The Milan cycle : Carson McCuller's Milan -- Breaking the pencil : William Faulkner's Jefferson -- Knowing how to curse : William Melvin Kelley's Sutton -- Conclusion : (De)Generative ground : the field and the segregated town.

Call Number

Sc D 21-451

ISBN

• 9781474461573
• 1474461573

OCLC

1117519053

Author

Lennon, Gavan, author.

Title

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

Publisher

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2020]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Modern American literature and the new twentieth century

Modern American literature and the new twentieth century.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 236-247) and index.

Local Note

AUTH: CANTERBURY CHRIST CHURCH UNIV.

Chronological Term

1900-1999

Research Call Number

Sc D 21-451