Title The South in Black and white : race, sex, and literature in the 1940s / McKay Jenkins

Published Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©1999

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 215 pages) Contents Whatever else the true American is, he is also somehow black -- Moving among the living as ghosts: a historical overview -- Private violence desirable: race, sex, and sadism in Wilbur J. Cash's The mind of the South -- Men of honor and pygmy tribes: metaphors of race and cultural decline in William Alexander Percy's Lanterns on the levee -- I know the fears by heart: segregation as metaphor in the work of Lillian Smith -- The sadness made her feel queer: race, gender, and the grotesque in the early writings of Carson McCullers -- Thirteen ways of looking at whiteness Summary Annotation Discusses the changing nature of racial politics in the 1940s South as revealed in the works of four white writers who themselves had uneasy relationships with their own white culture: W.J. Cash, William Alexander Percy, Lillian Smith, and Carson McCullers Analysis Litteratur Engelsk, amerikansk litteratur Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-212) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Print version record Subject Percy, William Alexander, 1885-1942 -- Political and social views Smith, Lillian (Lillian Eugenia), 1897-1966 -- Political and social views McCullers, Carson, 1917-1967 -- Political and social views Cash, W. J. (Wilbur Joseph), 1900-1941 SUBJECT Cash, W. J. (Wilbur Joseph), 1900-1941 fast McCullers, Carson, 1917-1967 fast Percy, William Alexander, 1885-1942 fast Smith, Lillian (Lillian Eugenia), 1897-1966 fast Subject American literature -- Southern States -- History and criticism Literature and society -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century African Americans in literature. Race in literature. Sex in literature. LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General. African Americans in literature American literature Intellectual life Literature and society Political and social views Race in literature Race relations -- Historiography Sex in literature Letterkunde. Amerikaans. Zuidelijke staten. Rassenvraagstuk. SUBJECT Southern States -- Race relations -- Historiography Southern States -- Intellectual life -- 1865- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125653 Subject Southern States Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book ISBN 080787602X 9780807876022 0807824917 9780807824917 0807847771 9780807847770

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