Title Neo-segregation narratives : Jim Crow in post-civil rights American literature / Brian Norman

Published Athens : University of Georgia Press, ©2010

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Description 1 online resource (x, 214 pages) : illustrations, map Contents Introduction. Jim Crow then: the emergence of neo-segregation narratives -- Jim Crow Jr.: Lorraine Hansberry's late segregation revisions and Toni Morrison's early post-civil rights ambivalence -- Jim Crow returns, Jim Crow remains: gender and segregation in David Bradley's The Chaneysville incident and Alice Walker's The color purple -- Jim too: black blackface minstrelsy in Wesley Brown's Darktown strutters and Spike Lee's Bamboozled -- Jim Crow in Idaho: clarifying blackness in multiethnic fiction -- Jim Crow Faulkner: Suzan-Lori Parks digs up the past, again -- Epilogue. Jim Crow today: when Jim Crow is but should not be Summary This study of what Brian Norman terms a neo-segregation narrative tradition examines literary depictions of life under Jim Crow that were written well after the civil rights movement.; From Toni Morrison's first novel, The Bluest Eye, to bestselling black fiction of the 1980s to a string of recent work by black and nonblack authors and artists, Jim Crow haunts the post-civil rights imagination. Norman traces a neo-segregation narrative tradition - one that developed in tandem with neo-slave narratives - 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. These writers upset dominant national narratives of achieved equality, portraying what are often more elusive racial divisions in what some would call a postracial present.; Norman examines works by black writers such as Lorraine Hansberry, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, David Bradley, Wesley Brown, Suzan-Lori Parks, and Colson Whitehead, films by Spike Lee, and other cultural works that engage in debates about gender, Black Power, blackface minstrelsy, literary history, and whiteness and ethnicity. Norman also shows that multiethnic writers such as Sherman Alexie and Tom Spanbauer use Jim Crow as a reference point, extending the tradition of William Faulkner's representations of the segregated South and John Howard Griffin's notorious account of crossing the color line from white to black in his 1961 work Black Like Me Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject 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. LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- African American Studies. African Americans in literature American literature American literature -- African American authors Race discrimination in literature Segregation in literature Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780820337357 0820337358 128289207X 9781282892071 9786612892073 6612892072

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