The Resource The South in Black and white: : race, sex, and literature in the 1940s, McKay Jenkins
The South in Black and white: : race, sex, and literature in the 1940s, McKay Jenkins
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- Summary
- If the nation as a whole during the 1940s was halfway between the Great Depression of the 1930s and the postwar prosperity of the 1950s, the South found itself struggling through an additional transition, one bound up in an often violent reworking of its own sense of history and regional identity. Examining the changing nature of racial politics in the 1940s, McKay Jenkins measures its impact on white Southern literature, history, and culture. Jenkins focuses on four white Southern writers--W. J. Cash, William Alexander Percy, Lillian Smith, and Carson McCullers--to show how they constructed images of race and race relations within works that professed to have little, if anything, to do with race. Sexual isolation further complicated these authors' struggles with issues of identity and repression, he argues, allowing them to occupy a space between the privilege of whiteness and the alienation of blackness. Although their views on race varied tremendously, these Southern writers' uneasy relationship with their own dominant racial group belies the idea that "whiteness" was an unchallenged, monolithic racial identity in the region
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource.
- Isbn
- 9780807876022
- Label
- The South in Black and white: : race, sex, and literature in the 1940s
- Title
- The South in Black and white:
- Title remainder
- race, sex, and literature in the 1940s
- Statement of responsibility
- McKay Jenkins
- Subject
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- African Americans in literature
- American literature -- Southern States -- History and criticism
- Cash, W. J., (Wilbur Joseph), 1900-1941
- Electronic books
- Literature and society -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century
- McCullers, Carson, 1917-1967 -- Political and social views
- Race in literature
- Sex in literature
- Smith, Lillian, (Lillian Eugenia), 1897-1966 -- Political and social views
- Southern States -- Intellectual life -- 1865-
- Southern States -- Race relations | Historiography
- Percy, William Alexander, 1885-1942 -- Political and social views
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- If the nation as a whole during the 1940s was halfway between the Great Depression of the 1930s and the postwar prosperity of the 1950s, the South found itself struggling through an additional transition, one bound up in an often violent reworking of its own sense of history and regional identity. Examining the changing nature of racial politics in the 1940s, McKay Jenkins measures its impact on white Southern literature, history, and culture. Jenkins focuses on four white Southern writers--W. J. Cash, William Alexander Percy, Lillian Smith, and Carson McCullers--to show how they constructed images of race and race relations within works that professed to have little, if anything, to do with race. Sexual isolation further complicated these authors' struggles with issues of identity and repression, he argues, allowing them to occupy a space between the privilege of whiteness and the alienation of blackness. Although their views on race varied tremendously, these Southern writers' uneasy relationship with their own dominant racial group belies the idea that "whiteness" was an unchallenged, monolithic racial identity in the region
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- Midwest
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- 1963-
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- Jenkins, McKay
- Dewey number
- 810.9/975/09044
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- dictionaries
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- Percy, William Alexander
- Smith, Lillian
- McCullers, Carson
- Cash, W. J.
- American literature
- Literature and society
- African Americans in literature
- Race in literature
- Sex in literature
- Southern States
- Southern States
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- The South in Black and white: : race, sex, and literature in the 1940s, McKay Jenkins
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- online resource
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- multicolored
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- Control code
- MWT11719356
- Dimensions
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- Extent
- 1 online resource.
- Form of item
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- online
- electronic
- Governing access note
- Digital content provided by hoopla
- Isbn
- 9780807876022
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- Publisher number
- MWT11719356
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- 11719356
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- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Label
- The South in Black and white: : race, sex, and literature in the 1940s, McKay Jenkins
- Link
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
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- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier.
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent.
- Control code
- MWT11719356
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource.
- Form of item
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- online
- electronic
- Governing access note
- Digital content provided by hoopla
- Isbn
- 9780807876022
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
- Media type code
-
- c
- Publisher number
- MWT11719356
- Specific material designation
- remote
- Stock number
- 11719356
- System details
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
Subject
- African Americans in literature
- American literature -- Southern States -- History and criticism
- Cash, W. J., (Wilbur Joseph), 1900-1941
- Electronic books
- Literature and society -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century
- McCullers, Carson, 1917-1967 -- Political and social views
- Race in literature
- Sex in literature
- Smith, Lillian, (Lillian Eugenia), 1897-1966 -- Political and social views
- Southern States -- Intellectual life -- 1865-
- Southern States -- Race relations | Historiography
- Percy, William Alexander, 1885-1942 -- Political and social views
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