Intro -- Living Jim Crow -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Uncovering a Poetics of Protest -- 1 Creators of the Small Town: Anthropology, Racial Etiquette and African American Fiction in the 193 -- 2 The White Town/Coloured Town Paradigm: Lillian Smith's Maxwell -- 3 An Anatomy of Critique: Byron Herbert Reece's Tilden -- 4 The Milan Cycle: Carson McCullers's Milan -- 5 Breaking the Pencil: William Faulkner's Jefferson -- 6 Knowing How to Curse: William Melvin Kelley's Sutton -- Conclusion: (De)Generative Ground: The Field and the Segregated Town -- Notes
Summary
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
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO; viewed June 8, 2020)
