McKible Circulating Jim Crow

The Saturday Evening Post and the War Against Black Modernity
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-0-231-55949-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 288 Seiten

Reihe: Modernist Latitudes

Adam McKible demonstrates how the Saturday Evening Post used stereotypical dialect fiction to promulgate white supremacist ideology and dismiss Black achievements, citizenship, and humanity.

Autoren/Hrsg.

McKible, Adam

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Schreiben und Publizieren, Kreatives Schreiben

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. George Horace Lorimer and Rising Jim Crow
2. Literary Aspiration and Intimate Minstrelsy
3. Irvin S. Cobb: Making the New Negro Old Again
4. Hugh Wiley, Edward Christopher Williams, and Black Doughboys
5. Octavus Roy Cohen, the Midnight Motion Picture Company, and the Shadows of Jim Crow
6. The End of the Lorimer Era
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Adam McKible is associate professor of English at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. He is author of The Space and Place of Modernism: The Russian Revolution, Little Magazines, and New York (2002), editor of Edward Christopher Williams’s When Washington Was in Vogue (2004), and coeditor of Little Magazines and Modernism: New Approaches (2007).