Neo-Segregation Narratives

Jim Crow in Post-Civil Rights American Literature
Erscheinungsjahr 2010
ISBN: 978-0-8203-3597-1
Verlag: University of Georgia Press

Buch, Englisch, 212 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 340 g

Examines literary depictions of life under Jim Crow that were written well after the civil rights movement - from Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye, to bestselling black fiction of the 1980s to recent work by black and non-black authors and artists. It traces a 'neo-segregation' narrative tradition by which writers return to a moment of stark de jure segregation to address contemporary concerns about national identity and the persistence of racial divides.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Norman, Brian

Über Autor(innen)

Brian Norman is an assistant professor of English and the director of African and African American studies at Loyola University Maryland. He is author of The American Protest Essay and National Belonging: Addressing Division and coeditor of Representing Segregation: Toward an Aesthetics of Living Jim Crow, and Other Forms of Racial Division.