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 |
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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 |
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Print version record |
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Percy, William Alexander, 1885-1942 -- Political and social views
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Smith, Lillian (Lillian Eugenia), 1897-1966 -- Political and social views
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McCullers, Carson, 1917-1967 -- Political and social views
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Cash, W. J. (Wilbur Joseph), 1900-1941
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SUBJECT |
Cash, W. J. (Wilbur Joseph), 1900-1941 fast |
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McCullers, Carson, 1917-1967 fast |
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Percy, William Alexander, 1885-1942 fast |
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Smith, Lillian (Lillian Eugenia), 1897-1966 fast |
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American literature -- Southern States -- History and criticism
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Literature and society -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century
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African Americans in literature.
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Race in literature.
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Sex in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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African Americans in literature
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American literature
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Intellectual life
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Literature and society
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Political and social views
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Race in literature
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Race relations -- Historiography
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Sex in literature
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Letterkunde.
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Amerikaans.
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Zuidelijke staten.
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Rassenvraagstuk.
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Southern States -- Race relations -- Historiography
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Southern States -- Intellectual life -- 1865-
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125653
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Subject |
Southern States
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Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
080787602X |
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9780807876022 |
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0807824917 |
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9780807824917 |
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0807847771 |
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9780807847770 |
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