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The South in Black and White: Race, Sex and Literature in the 1940s
Mckay Jenkins
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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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press Chapel Hill
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
Chapel Hill, United States
ISBN
9780807847770
SKU
V9780807847770
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About Mckay Jenkins
McKay Jenkins teaches journalism and American literature at the University of Delaware. He is editor of The Peter Matthiessen Reader and also has written a natural history of avalanches
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