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This study of what Brian Norman terms a neo-segregation narrative tradition examines literary depictions of life under Jim Crow that were written well after the civil rights movement. From Toni Morrison's first novel, The Bluest Eye, to bestselling black fiction of the 1980s to a string of recent work by black and nonblack authors and artists, Jim Crow haunts the post-civil rights imagination. Norman traces a neo-segregation narrative tradition-one that developed in tandem with neo-slave narratives-by which writers return to a moment of stark de jure segregation to address contemporary concerns about national identity and the persistence of racial divides. These writers upset dominant national narratives of achieved equality, portraying what are often more elusive racial divisions in what some would call a postracial present. Norman examines works by black writers such as Lorraine Hansberry, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, David Bradley, Wesley Brown, Suzan-Lori Parks, and Colson Whitehead, films by Spike Lee, and other cultural works that engage in debates about gender, Black Power, blackface minstrelsy, literary history, and whiteness and ethnicity. Norman also shows that multiethnic writers such as Sherman Alexie and Tom Spanbauer use Jim Crow as a reference point, extending the tradition of William Faulkner's representations of the segregated South and John Howard Griffin's notorious account of crossing the color line from white to black in his 1961 work Black Like Me.

Race discrimination in literature. --- Segregation in literature. --- African Americans in literature. --- American literature --- Afro-Americans in literature --- Negroes in literature --- History and criticism. --- African American authors

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Many recent studies of racial passing have emphasized the continuing, almost haunting power of racial segregation even in the post-segregation period in the US, or in the post-apartheid period in South Africa. This "present-ness" of racial passing, the fact that it has not really become "passé," is noticeable in the great number of testimonies which have been published in the 2000s and 2010s by descendants of individuals who passed for white in the English-speaking world. The sheer number of publications suggest a continuing interest in the kind of relation to the personal and national past which is at stake in the long-delayed revelation of cases of racial passing. This interest in family memoirs or in fictional works re-tracing the erasure of some relative’s racial identity is by no means limited to the United States: for instance, Zoë Wicomb in South Africa or Zadie Smith in the UK both use the passing novel to unravel the complex situation of mixed-race subjects in relation to their family past and to a national past marked by a history of racial inequality. Yet, the vast majority of critical approaches to racial passing have so far remained largely focused on the United States and its specific history of race relations. The objective of this volume is twofold: it aims at shedding light on the way texts or films show the work of individual memory and collective recollection as they grapple with a racially divided past, struggling with its legacy or playing with its stereotypes. Our second objective has been to explore the great variety in the forms taken by racial passing depending on the context, which in turn leads to differences in the ways it is remembered. Focusing on how a previously erased racial identity may resurface in the present has enabled us to extend the scope of our study to other countries than the United States, so that this volume hopes to propose some new, transnational directions in the study of racial passing.

Collective memory --- Race in literature. --- Segregation in literature. --- Race in motion pictures. --- Segregation --- Black people --- African Americans --- History --- In motion pictures. --- Race identity

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Examines racial segregation in literature and the cultural legacy of the Jim Crow era.

African Americans --- African Americans in literature. --- Race in literature. --- Segregation in literature. --- American literature --- Afro-Americans --- Black Americans --- Colored people (United States) --- Negroes --- Africans --- Ethnology --- Blacks --- Afro-Americans in literature --- Negroes in literature --- Segregation --- Historiography. --- History and criticism. --- African American authors --- History and criticism --- 20th century --- Segregation in literature --- Race in literature --- African Americans in literature --- Historiography --- Chesnutt, Charles Waddell --- Criticism and interpretation --- Grimké, Angelina Weld --- Hansberry, Lorraine --- Petry, Ann Lane --- Wells, Ida Barnett --- Wright, Richard --- Black people

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This is the first book to analyze our suburban literary tradition. Tracing the suburb's emergence as a crucial setting and subject of the twentieth-century American novel, Catherine Jurca identifies a decidedly masculine obsession with the suburban home and a preoccupation with its alternative--the experience of spiritual and emotional dislocation that she terms "homelessness." In the process, she challenges representations of white suburbia as prostrated by its own privileges. In novels as disparate as Tarzan (written by Tarzana, California, real-estate developer Edgar Rice Burroughs), Richard Wright's Native Son, and recent fiction by John Updike and Richard Ford, Jurca finds an emphasis on the suburb under siege, a place where the fortunate tend to see themselves as powerless. From Babbitt to Rabbit, the suburban novel casts property owners living in communities of their choosing as dispossessed people. Material advantages become artifacts of oppression, and affluence is fraudulently identified as impoverishment. The fantasy of victimization reimagines white flight as a white diaspora. Extending innovative trends in the study of nineteenth-century American culture, Jurca's analysis suggests that self-pity has played a constitutive role in white middle-class identity in the twentieth century. It breaks new ground in literary history and cultural studies, while telling the story of one of our most revered and reviled locations: "the little suburban house at number one million and ten Volstead Avenue" that Edith Wharton warned would ruin American life and letters.

American fiction - 20th century -. --- American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism. --- Race in literature. --- Segregation in literature. --- Suburban life in literature. --- Suburbs in literature. --- Whites in literature. --- American fiction --- Suburban life in literature --- Segregation in literature --- Suburbs in literature --- Whites in literature --- Race in literature --- American Literature --- English --- Languages & Literatures --- History and criticism --- Blancs dans la littérature --- Blanken in de literatuur --- Leven in de voorsteden in de literatuur --- Vie de la banlieue dans la littérature --- History and criticism. --- 20th century --- Lewis, Sinclair --- Criticism and interpretation --- Cain, James Mallahan --- Wright, Richard --- Burroughs, Edgar Rice --- White people in literature. --- White people in literature

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African Americans in literature --- Afro-Americans in literature --- Afro-Amerikanen in de literatuur --- Afro-Américains dans la littérature --- Amerikaanse zwarten in de literatuur --- Black Americans in literature --- Negroes in literature --- Noirs américains dans la littérature --- Race relations in literature --- Rassenverhoudingen in de literatuur --- Relations raciales dans la littérature --- Segregatie in de literatuur --- Segregation in literature --- Ségrégation dans la littérature --- Zwarte Amerikanen in de literatuur --- African Americans --- -African Americans in literature --- American literature --- -Race in literature --- English literature --- Agrarians (Group of writers) --- Afro-Americans --- Black Americans --- Colored people (United States) --- Negroes --- Africans --- Ethnology --- Blacks --- Intellectual life --- African American authors --- -Bibliography --- -Catalogs --- African Americans in literature. --- Race in literature. --- Race relations in literature. --- Segregation in literature. --- Intellectual life. --- History and criticism. --- Race in literature --- African American intellectuals --- African American authors&delete& --- History and criticism --- Douglass, Frederick --- Delany, Martin Robison --- Twain, Mark --- Du Bois, William Edward Burghardt