Jim Crow, literature, and the legacy of Sutton E. Griggs
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| Format: | Elektronisch E-Book |
| Sprache: | English |
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2013
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| Schriftenreihe: | New southern studies
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| Online-Zugang: | DE-1046 DE-1047 |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-291) and index Acknowledgments -- Introduction / Tess Chakkalakal and Kenneth W. Warren -- Sutton Griggs and the borderlands of empire / Caroline Levander -- Empires at home and abroad in Sutton E. Griggs's Imperium in Imperio / John Gruesser -- Edward Everett Hale's and Sutton E. Griggs's Men without a country / Robert S. Levine -- Moving up a dead-end ladder : black class mobility, death, and narrative closure in Sutton Griggs's Overshadowed / Andreá N. Williams -- Social Darwinism, American imperialism, and the origins of the science of collective effciency in Sutton E. Griggs's Unfettered / Finnie Coleman -- Reading in Sutton E. Griggs / Tess Chakkalakal -- Sutton E. Griggs against Thomas Dixon's "Vile, isrepresentations" : The hindered hand and The leopard's spots / Hanna Wallinger -- Harnessing the Niagara : Sutton E. Griggs's The hindered hand / John Ernest -- Jim Crow and the house of fiction : Charles W. Chesnutt's and Sutton E. Griggs's last novels / M. Giulia Fabi -- Perfecting the political romance : the last novel of Sutton Griggs / Kenneth W. Warren -- Chronology : the life and times of Sutton E. Griggs -- Selected bibliography -- Contributors -- Index Imperium in Imperio (1899) was the first black novel to countenance openly the possibility of organized black violence against Jim Crow segregation. Its author, a Baptist minister and newspaper editor from Texas, Sutton E. Griggs (1872-1933), would go on to publish four more novels; establish his own publishing company, one of the first secular publishing houses owned and operated by an African American in the United States; and help to found the American Baptist Theological Seminary in Tennessee. Alongside W.E.B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington, Griggs was a key political and literary voice |
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| Beschreibung: | 1 PDF (310 pages.) |
| ISBN: | 9780820346304 0820346306 9780820340326 0820340324 9780820345987 0820345989 |