Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Uncovering a Poetics of Protest
- 1 Creators of the Small Town: Anthropology, Racial Etiquette and African American Fiction in the 1930s
- 2 The White Town/Coloured Town Paradigm: Lillian Smith’s Maxwell
- 3 An Anatomy of Critique: Byron Herbert Reece’s Tilden
- 4 The Milan Cycle: Carson McCullers’s Milan
- 5 Breaking the Pencil: William Faulkner’s Jefferson
- 6 Knowing How to Curse: William Melvin Kelley’s Sutton
- Conclusion: (De)Generative Ground – The Field and the Segregated Town
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Acknowledgements
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 October 2020
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Uncovering a Poetics of Protest
- 1 Creators of the Small Town: Anthropology, Racial Etiquette and African American Fiction in the 1930s
- 2 The White Town/Coloured Town Paradigm: Lillian Smith’s Maxwell
- 3 An Anatomy of Critique: Byron Herbert Reece’s Tilden
- 4 The Milan Cycle: Carson McCullers’s Milan
- 5 Breaking the Pencil: William Faulkner’s Jefferson
- 6 Knowing How to Curse: William Melvin Kelley’s Sutton
- Conclusion: (De)Generative Ground – The Field and the Segregated Town
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- Living Jim CrowThe Segregated Town in Mid-Century Southern Fiction, pp. vi - viiiPublisher: Edinburgh University PressPrint publication year: 2020