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Civil Rights in the White Literary Imagination
The statement, \"The Civil Rights Movement changed America,\" though true, has become something of a cliché.Civil rights in the White Literary Imaginationseeks to determine how, exactly, the Civil Rights Movement changed the literary possibilities of four iconic American writers: Robert Penn Warren, Norman Mailer, Eudora Welty, and William Styron. Each of these writers published significant works prior to theBrown v. Board of Educationcase in 1954 and the Montgomery Bus Boycott that began in December of the following year, making it possible to trace their evolution in reaction to these events. The work these writers crafted in response to the upheaval of the day, from Warren'sWho Speaks for the Negro?, to Mailer's \"The White Negro\" to Welty's \"Where Is the Voice Coming From?\" to Styron'sConfessions of Nat Turner, reveal much about their own feeling in the moment even as they contribute to the national conversation that centered on race and democracy.
By examining these works closely, Gray posits the argument that these writers significantly shaped discourse on civil rights as the movement was occurring but did so in ways that--intentionally or not--often relied upon a notion of the relative innocence of the South with regard to racial affairs, and on a construct of African Americans as politically and/or culturally na*ve. As these writers grappled with race and the myth of southern nobility, their work developed in ways that were simultaneously sympathetic of, and condescending to, black intellectual thought occurring at the same time.
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Dialect and dichotomy : literary representations of African American speech
Applies linguistics methods for a richer understanding of literary texts and spoken language. Dialect and Dichotomy outlines the history of dialect writing in English and its influence on linguistic variation. It also surveys American dialect writing and its relationship to literary, linguistic, political, and cultural trends, with emphasis on African American voices in literature. Furthermore, this book introduces and critiques canonical works in literary dialect analysis and covers recent, innovative applications of linguistic analysis of literature. Next, it proposes theoretical principles and specific methods that can be implemented in order to analyze literary dialect for either linguistic or literary purposes, or both. Finally, the proposed methods are applied in four original analyses of African American speech as represented in major works of fiction of the American South—Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , Charles W. Chesnutt's The Conjure Woman , William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury , and Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God . Dialect and Dichotomy is designed to be accessible to audiences with a variety of linguistic and literary backgrounds. It is an ideal research resource and course text for students and scholars interested in areas including American, African American, and southern literature and culture; linguistic applications to literature; language in the African American community; ethnicity and representation; literary dialect analysis and/or computational linguistics; dialect writing as genre; and American English.
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Ugly White People
Whiteness revealed: an analysis of the destructive
complacency of white self-consciousness
White Americans are confronting their whiteness more than ever
before, with political and social shifts ushering in a newfound
racial awareness. And with white people increasingly seeing
themselves as distinctly racialized (not simply as American or
human), white writers are exposing a self-awareness of white
racialized behavior-from staunch antiracism to virulent forms of
xenophobic nationalism. Ugly White People explores
representations of whiteness from twenty-first-century white
American authors, revealing white recognition of the ugly forms
whiteness can take.
Stephanie Li argues that much of the twenty-first century has
been defined by this rising consciousness of whiteness because of
the imminent shift to a \"majority minority\" population and the
growing diversification of America's political, social, and
cultural institutions. The result is literature that more directly
grapples with whiteness as its own construct rather than a wrongly
assumed norm. Li contextualizes a series of literary novels as
collectively influenced by changes in racial and political
attitudes. Turning to works by Dave Eggers, Sarah Smarsh, J. D.
Vance, Claire Messud, Ben Lerner, and others, she traces the
responses to white consciousness that breed shared manifestations
of ugliness. The tension between acknowledging whiteness as an
identity built on domination and the failure to remedy inequalities
that have proliferated from this founding injustice is often the
source of the ugly whiteness portrayed through these
narratives.
The questions posed in Ugly White People about the
nature and future of whiteness are vital to understanding
contemporary race relations in America. From the election of Trump
and the rise of white nationalism to Karen memes and the war
against critical race theory to the pervasive pattern of behavior
among largely liberal-leaning whites, Li elucidates truths about
whiteness that challenge any hope of national unity and, most
devastatingly, the basic humanity of others.
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The Word in Black and White
Nelson provides a study of the ways in which white American authors constructed `race' in their works from the time of the first colonists up to the period of the Civil War. She focuses on some eleven texts, including The Last of the Mohicans, Melville's Benito Cereno, and Harriet Jacobs's Incident in the Life of a Slave Girl.
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Civil Rights in the White Literary Imagination
The statement, \"The Civil Rights Movement changed America,\" though true, has become something of a cliché. Civil rights in the White Literary Imagination seeks to determine how, exactly, the Civil Rights Movement changed the literary possibilities of four iconic American writers: Robert Penn Warren, Norman Mailer, Eudora Welty, and William Styron. Each of these writers published significant works prior to the Brown v. Board of Education case in 1954 and the Montgomery Bus Boycott that began in December of the following year, making it possible to trace their evolution in reaction to these events. The work these writers crafted in response to the upheaval of the day, from Warren's Who Speaks for the Negro?, to Mailer's \"The White Negro\" to Welty's \"Where Is the Voice Coming From?\" to Styron's Confessions of Nat Turner, reveal much about their own feeling in the moment even as they contribute to the national conversation that centered on race and democracy. By examining these works closely, Gray posits the argument that these writers significantly shaped discourse on civil rights as the movement was occurring but did so in ways that--intentionally or not--often relied upon a notion of the relative innocence of the South with regard to racial affairs, and on a construct of African Americans as politically and/or culturally na*ve. As these writers grappled with race and the myth of southern nobility, their work developed in ways that were simultaneously sympathetic of, and condescending to, black intellectual thought occurring at the same time.
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