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Thomas Dixon, Jr. and the birth of modern America /

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Gillespie, Michele, Hall, Randal L., 1971-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2006]
Series:Making the modern South.
Subjects:
Dixon, Thomas, > Jr., > 1864-1946 > Criticism and interpretation.
Dixon, Thomas, > Jr., > 1864-1946 > Knowledge > United States.
National characteristics, American, in literature.
Race relations in literature.
Racism in motion pictures.
Racism in literature.
Race in literature.
Table of Contents:
  • Thomas Dixon : American Proteus / W. Fitzhugh Brundage
  • "My books are hard reading for a Negro" : Tom Dixon and his African American critics, 1905-1939 / John David Smith
  • Gender and race in Dixon's religious ideology / Cynthia Lynn Lyerly
  • "Ours is a century of light" : Dixon's strange consistency / David Stricklin
  • Thomas Dixon and the literary production of whiteness / Scott Romine
  • Thomas Dixon and race melodrama / Jane M. Gaines
  • The cinematic representation of race in The birth of a nation : a Black horror film / Charlene Regester
  • Do movies have rights? / Louis Menand
  • Epilogue : the enduring worlds of Thomas Dixon / William A. Link.