Dividing Lines: Class Anxiety and Postbellum Black Fiction (Class : Culture)
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| Rating | : | 4.62 (815 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0472036742 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 232 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-01-03 |
| Language | : | English |
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social order. One of the most extensive studies of class in nineteenth-century African American literature to date, Dividing Lines unveils how black fiction writers represented the uneasy relationship between class differences, racial solidarity, and the quest for civil rights in black communities. W. Chesnutt, Sutton Griggs, and Paul Laurence Dunbar, showing how these texts mediate class through discussions of labor, moral respectability, ancestry, spatial boundaries, and skin complexion. The book argues that the signs of class anxiety are embedded in postbellum fiction: from the verbal stammer or prim speech of class-conscious characters to fissures in the fiction's form. Dividing Lines also draws on reader responses—from book reviews, editorials, and letters—to show how the class anxiety expressed in African American fiction directly sparked reader concerns over the status of black Americans in the U.S. Weaving literary history with compelling textual analyses, this study yields new insights about the intersection of race and class in black novels and short stories from the 1880s to 1900s.. Andreá N. By portraying complex, highly stratified communities with a growing black middle class, these authors dispelled notions that black
“Encapsulates debates about anxiety’s role in literary production and its status in critical methodology as it delineates the great pains Frances E. Beyond representing class and its attendance anxieties, a picture of contestation over the very meaning of class emerges in Dividing Lines, as Williams shows each author prescribing a different term around which she or he believes social classes ought to be organized.” —American Literature. Harper, Sutton Griggs, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Pauline Hopkins, and Charles Chesnutt took
A Forgotten Stage of American Progress Excellent reading and insight. This is a profound look at post Civil War America as very few knew it or were willing to acknowledge. Dr. Andrea Williams examines race and class as described in black fiction literature in the progressive era of the 1880's and 1900's. The Amer