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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...

... 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...

... 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...

... 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...

... intricate representation of the processes and effects of memory, both personal and collective.3 As Jim Burden narrates his nostalgic return, Cather is able to portray not only the content of Jim’s memories but also 193 TWENTIETH CENTURY LITERATURE their structuring...

..., and in both cases this attraction ends disastrously. In the original 1948 edition of The City and the Pillar, Jim Willard murders Bob Ford, the man he has loved since high school, when Bob rejects his sexual advances; in the revised edition of 1965, Jim rapes Bob instead of murdering him.1 And David...

... Saxon purity, Larsen’s story unveils the problems inherent in the dominant late nineteenth-century concept of race. It explores what happens when one is called upon to perform “charity” for a “race” whose members, especially in the Jim Crow South, are so culturally, politically, and economically...

... nonobservers, such as Ántonia. I also depart here from George Dekker (1987 : 226–29, 256–65), who gives sustained attention to Schiller’s naive/sentimental distinction in Cather but who mostly classifies characters as masculine-sentimental (Jim) or feminine-naive (Ántonia). 11 According to Schiller...

... American literature came into being and came to an end concurrently with the rise and fall of Jim Crow—Warren’s book has functioned as a call for scholars to articu- late what, for them, the term “African American literature” defines, who defines it, why we feel that definition is important...

... is impressive in his use of textual and historical evidence and ultimately convincing in his claim that Conrad recognizes the inadequa­ cies of British imperialist ideology as a means of reoccupation. In the section on Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim, Adams focuses more directly on art’s...

... and the narrator’s commentary on the characters leave no doubt as to how the reader is meant to judge them. Lyndsay’s husband, Jim Videlle, is not only unworthy of the sacri­ fice of Lyndsay’s commitment to him, his cowardice and weakness prove him undeserving of life itself.The perfect compatibility between...

... 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...

... 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...

... it was good to hear from you!” Hemingway wrote to Jim Gamble, who had been his commanding officer in 1918 when Hemingway was wounded in Italy. “I’m so darn glad to hear from you that I don’t know what to write” (181), he continued—and then went on to write another 2000 words. “I sure like to get...

... 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...

.... Part II concludes with the mid-century’s eccentrics, Jim Thompson and Patricia Highsmith, and their “perversion of sentimentality.” Part III takes crime fiction from the 1960’s domestication of the private detective in the long-running series of Robert B. Parker’s Spenser, Ross MacDonald’s Lew...

... recognized that a host of good reasons explained my great-great-grandmother’s reluctance to talk about slavery with a white interviewer in Dixie in the age of Jim Crow. But her silence stirred my own questions about memory and slavery: What is it we choose to remember about the past and what is it we...

... 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...

..., England, the Black Caribbean writer Eric Walrond published one of his last pieces of fiction in the hospital’s literary journal, the Roundway Review . The semi-autobiographical story mainly charts the US experiences of its Caribbean protagonist, Jim Prout, who has recently arrived in New York...