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Scholars of English from across the US, most specializing in African-American literature, examine the literary representation of racial segregation in the country. Their overall themes are the aesthetic challenges of Jim Crow politics, imagining and subverting Jim Crow in Charles Chesnutt's segregation fiction, inside Jim Crow and his doubles, exporting Jim Crow, and Jim Crow's legacy. Their topics include the social life of segregation signs, Chesnutt's "The Dumb Witness" and the culture of segregation, remapping segregation in Angelina Weld Grimké's "Blackness" and "Goldie," Latin America…
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1 edition- Other · English · 2010State University of New York Press · 280 pages · 9781438430331
African Americans in literatureSegregation in literatureHistoriographyHistory and criticismAmerican literatureRace in literatureSegregationAfrican American authors