The scary Mason-Dixon Line African American writers and the South
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- ISBN: 9780807142547 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 0807142549 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 9780807133958
- ISBN: 0807133957
- ISBN: 9780801833953
- ISBN: 0801833957
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1 online resource (xi, 247 p.) - Publisher: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, c2009.
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General Note: | CatMonthString:mar.13 CatBulkString:mar.12.13 Multi-User. |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-233) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Introduction : Southern black writers no matter where they are born -- Such a frightening musical form : James Baldwin's Blues for Mister Charlie (1964) -- Fear of manhood in the wake of systemic racism in Ernest J. Gaines's "Three men" (1968) -- The irresistible appeal of slavery : fear of losing the self in Octavia E. Butler's Kindred (1979) -- Owning the script, owning the self : transcendence of fear in Sherley Anne Williams's Dessa Rose (1986) -- 10,000 miles from Dixie and still in the South : fear of transplanted racism in Yusef Komunyakaa's Vietnam poetry : Dien cai dau (1988) -- Fear of family, Christianity, and the self : Southern black "othering" in Randall Kenan's A visitation of spirits (1989) -- A haunting diary and a slasher quilt : using dynamic folk communities to combat terror in Phyllis Alesia Perry's Stigmata (1998) -- Domesticating fear : Tayari Jones's mission in Leaving Atlanta (2002) -- The worst fear imaginable : black slave owners in Edward P. Jones's The known world (2003) -- No fear; or, autoerotic creativity : how Raymond Andrews pleasures himself in Baby Sweet's (1983). |
Restrictions on Access Note: | Restrictions unspecified |
Reproduction Note: | Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011. |
System Details Note: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 |
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Source of Description Note: | Description based on print version record. |
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