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...Gary Edward Holcomb Neo-Segregation Narratives: Jim Crow in Post-Civil Rights American Literature , by Norman Brian , University of Georgia Press , 2010 . 214 pages. Copyright © Hofstra University 2013 Gary Edward Holcomb Neo-Segregation Narratives: Jim Crow in Post-Civil...

...Sharon Kunde “The ‘Nature’ of American Literature” explores how John Crowe Ransom and his less-studied contemporary Elizabeth Madox Roberts advanced a theory of literary objects that emerged from nature itself. This theory formed the basis of Ransom’s bid, in “Criticism, Inc.,” for disciplinary...

... slavery, Jim Crow, and the Nazi Holocaust. The article demonstrates how the novel’s unconventional and controversial emplotment allows Williams to create a distinctive historical critique not only of slavery and the Holocaust but, more broadly, of otherization, racialized violence, and modernity itself...

... to those of his New Critical mentors, such as John Crowe Ransom, for whom the individual of the liberal political order is entwined with the history of Puritan iconoclasm and Romantic views of the poetic subject. It argues that Ransom’s critique parallels those of later critics, such as Marjorie Perloff...

... and southern US culture the novel uncritically offers as the true nature of Jim Crow society. By emphasizing Lee’s self-conscious deployment of literary history in her construction of an Anglo-Saxon racial essence, the article distinguishes between the novel’s reactionary critiques of colorblind liberalism...

... political power during early Jim Crow. [email protected] Copyright © 2025 Hofstra University 2025 antiwar novel Civil War nonviolence Race Riot Wilmington coup d’état In this brief review, then, of the history and present political condition of the American Negro I cannot omit...

...” (“Hanged Man” 86).The seeds of Crow (1970), the volume that 22 Reading Word, Image, and the Body of the Book: Cave Birds firmly placed Hughes on the map of modern poetry, were sown shortly after Plath’s suicide in 1963, when, in an effort to “drive Hughes ‘from despair into activity Baskin asked...

... Ceremony, Welch’s Fools Crow, and Erdrich’s Love Medicine to be “great” but insists that they deserve respect for their artistic excellence, not for the supposedly authentic embodiment of their authors’ traditional cultures. They offer limited insight into those cultures, he charges...

... of Birthday Letters. We might even see England’s former poet laureate, or the author of such well-known works as “The Thought-Fox,” “Thistles,” and Crow. Even the academically invested, approaching the book with special­ ized knowledge, are likely to bring with them a set of associations...

... World War II, Rasberry argues, the black soldier occupied a more ambivalent position: rather than embodying two fronts of resistance against totalitarianism in Europe and Jim Crow in the United States, black soldiers’ participation in the occupation of Germany and Japan made them ambivalent emblems...

..., 2004: LaraTrubowitz, 308 EPB, Dept, of English, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242 and Phyllis Lassner, Jewish Studies Program, Crowe Hall, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208. ...

... as much as it reveals and illuminates,” and thus “relocating the black political radicalism that has been chronologically situated during the late 1960s in an earlier political landscape dominated by the southern movement’s struggles against Jim Crow reperiodizes civil rights and Black Power...

... cause such mayhem that no politician could ignore it” (296). When the crow declines his second wish, to make the impossible first wish possible, finally Zafar says, “I would like to see the face of my enemy.” The crow responds: Behold, the Kampani. On its roof are soldiers with guns. . . . From...

... in Southern Literature (2012), Lambert analyzes the false nostalgia of Southern apologists in works such as John Crowe Ransom’s essay “Reconstructed but Unregenerate” (1930) and William Alexander Percy’s 1941 autobiography Lanterns on the Levee . Percy’s work draws on the trope of the South as a contentious...

... a reading of Cameron Crowe’s Jerry Maguire to critique Judith Butler’s critique of Althusser in The Psychic Life of Power. Until this point she largely avoids arbitrating between the competing ontologies of self she describes, but she drops her neutrality when it comes to Butler. As a consequence...

... Hollywood’s racist illusions to very real social consequences: “Psychologically and ethically, these negative images constitute justifications for all those acts, legal, emotional, economic, and political, which we label Jim Crow” ( CE 305). In his second novel, Ellison explores these dynamics between shadow...

... Wright’s classic “The Ethics of Living Jim Crow.” Like the New Deal as a whole, such literary efforts were attacked by the House Committee on Un-American Activities, and this Red Scare deeply influenced post-WWII readings of Bishop as apolitical, obscuring what I read as Bishop’s statist queer poetics...

... stood John Crowe Ransom, who, as a central figure in the Nashville Agrarian movement (and a later progenitor of the New Criticism), weighed in regularly in such debates. “Regionalism,” Ransom wrote in 1934, “is as reasonable as non-regionalism, whatever the latter may be called: cosmopolitanism...

... Hughes’s Crow, or through the Looking Glass and What Crow Found There.” 43.1 (1997): 26-40 Berman, Ron. “Vaudeville Philosophers: ‘The Killers 45.1 (1999): 79-93 Bevis, Richard. “Actaeon’s Sin: The ‘Previous Iconography’ of Fowles’s ‘The Ebony Tower 42.1 (1996): 114-23...

... is achieved structurally. The text is framed by two stories about women. This fact itself 249 Megan Obourn indicates the importance of female characters to the text and suggests an implied female as well as male audience.16 The first story, “The Ethics of Living Jim Crow,” appears...