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The Cambridge Companion to American Civil Rights Literature /

The Cambridge Companion to American Civil Rights Literature brings together leading scholars to examine the significant traditions, genres and themes of civil rights literature. While civil rights scholarship has typically focused on documentary rather than creative writing, and political rather tha...

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Other Authors: Armstrong, Julie Buckner (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
Series:Cambridge companions to literature.
Subjects:
American literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Civil rights movements in literature.
Civil rights in literature.
Civil rights movements > United States > History > 20th century.
LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General.
Table of Contents:
  • The civil rights movement and the literature of social protest / Zoe Trodd
  • The dilemma of narrating Jim Crow / Brian Norman
  • The Black Arts movement / GerShun Avilez
  • Drama and performance from civil rights to Black Arts / Nilgün Anadolu-Okur
  • Civil rights movement fiction / Julie Buckner Armstrong
  • The white Southern novel and the civil rights movement / Christopher Metress
  • Civil rights fictional film / Sharon Monteith
  • Civil rights movement poetry / Jeffrey Lamar Coleman
  • Gender, sex, and civil rights / Robert J. Patterson
  • Twenty-first-century literature : post-black? post-civil rights? / Barbara McCaskill.