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A01=Gavan Lennon
African American literature
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Jim Crow
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post-war US fiction
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Product details
- ISBN 9781474461580
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 30 May 2022
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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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. With innovative close readings of Zora Neale Hurston, Richard Wright, Lillian Smith, Byron Herbert Reece, Carson McCullers, William Faulkner and William Melvin Kelley, the book traces the relationship between activism and aesthetics during the long civil rights movement. Lennon reframes a narrative of southern literature during the period as one as one characterised by an aesthetics of protest, identifying a new mode of reading racial resistance and the US South.
Gavan Lennon is Senior Lecturer in American Literature and Culture at Canterbury Christ Church University.
