Neo-segregation narratives
Subtitle: Jim Crow in post-civil rights American literature
By: Brian Norman.
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Athens
Language: eng
Number of pages: 214
ISBN-13: 9780820335964; 9780820335971; 9780820337357
Subjects: American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism; American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; African Americans in literature; Segregation in literature; Race discrimination in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction. Jim Crow then: the emergence of neo-segregation narratives; title: Jim Crow Jr.: Lorraine Hansberry's late segregation revisions and Toni Morrison's early post-civil rights ambivalence; title: Jim Crow returns, Jim Crow remains: gender and segregation in David Bradley's The Chaneysville incident and Alice Walker's The color purple; title: Jim too: black blackface minstrelsy in Wesley Brown's Darktown strutters and Spike Lee's Bamboozled; title: Jim Crow in Idaho: clarifying blackness in multiethnic fiction; title: Jim Crow Faulkner: Suzan-Lori Parks digs up the past, again; title: Epilogue. Jim Crow today: when Jim Crow is but should not be.