Imperium in Imperio

Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-1-952271-58-8
Verlag: West Virginia University Press

Buch, Englisch, 232 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 226 mm, Gewicht: 363 g

Reihe: Regenerations

A new critical edition of Sutton Griggs’s turn-of-the-twentieth-century novel, which continues to shed light on understandings of Black politics.

Sutton E. Griggs’s first novel, originally published in 1899, paints a searing picture of the violent enforcement of disfranchisement and Jim Crow racial segregation. Based on events of the time, including US imperial policies, revolutionary movements, and racial protests, Imperium in Imperio introduces the fictional Belton Piedmont and Bernard Belgrave as “future leaders of their race” and uses these characters to make sense of the violence that marked the dawn of the twentieth century. Taking on contemporary battles over separatism and integration, Griggs’s novel continues to play a crucial role in understandings of Black politics.Edited and introduced by Tess Chakkalakal and Kenneth W. Warren, this new critical edition offers not only an incisive biographical and historical introduction to the novel and its author but also a wealth of references that make the events and characters of Griggs’s Imperium in Imperio, and its aftermath, accessible to readers today.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Griggs, Sutton E

Chakkalakal, Tess

Warren, Kenneth W

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Prosa, Erzählung, Roman, Prosaautoren

Inhaltsverzeichnis

AcknowledgmentsIntroductionChronology: Life and Times of Sutton E. GriggsTextual Note Imperium in Imperio Annotations Emendations Appendix A: The Lynching of Postmaster Frazier B. BakerAppendix B: The Story of My Struggles (1914) by Sutton E. GriggsAppendix C: Griggs and the Richmond PlanetAppendix D: Signed First EditionAppendix E: The Virginian PilotAppendix F: Promotional Materials and Contemporary Review of Imperium in ImperioAppendix G: Speeches

Über Autor(innen)

Tess Chakkalakal is associate professor of Africana studies and English at Bowdoin College and the author of Novel Bondage: Slavery, Marriage, and Freedom in Nineteenth-Century America.

Kenneth W. Warren is Fairfax M. Cone Distinguished Service Professor in English at the University of Chicago and the author of What Was African American Literature?