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Slavery in literature --- Mitchell, Margaret --- Bontemps, Arna Wendell --- Elkins, Stanley --- Styron, William, 1925-2006. The Confessions of Nat Turner --- Morrison, Toni --- Gaither, Frances --- Jones, Edward P. --- Butler, Octavia E. --- Chopin, Kate O'Flaherty --- Douglass, Frederick --- Haley, Alex Palmer --- Martin, Valerie --- Onstott, Kyle --- Reed, Ishmael --- Walker, Margaret Abigail --- Williams, Sherley Anne

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Today{u2019}s critical establishment assumes that sentimentalism is an eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literary mode that all but disappeared by the twentieth century. In this book, Jennifer Williamson argues that sentimentalism is alive and well in the modern era. By examining working-class literature that adopts the rhetoric of ?feeling right? in order to promote a proletarian or humanist ideology as well as neo-slave narratives that wrestle with the legacy of slavery and cultural definitions of African American families, she explores the ways contemporary authors engage with familiar sentimental clichés and ideals. Williamson covers new ground by examining authors who are not generally read for their sentimental narrative practices, considering the proletarian novels of Grace Lumpkin, Josephine Johnson, and John Steinbeck alongside neo-slave narratives written by Margaret Walker, Octavia Butler, and Toni Morrison. Through careful close readings, Williamson argues that the appropriation of sentimental modes enables both sympathetic thought and systemic action in the proletarian and neo-slave novels under discussion. She contrasts appropriations that facilitate such cultural work with those that do not, including Kathryn Stockett{u2019}s novel and film The Help. The book outlines how sentimentalism remains a viable and important means of promoting social justice while simultaneously recognizing and exploring how sentimentality can further white privilege. Sentimentalism is not only alive in the twentieth century. It is a flourishing rhetorical practice among a range of twentieth-century authors who use sentimental tactics in order to appeal to their readers about a range of social justice issues. This book demonstrates that at stake in their appeals is who is inside and outside of the American family and nation.

Sentimentalism in literature --- Sentimentalisme dans la littérature --- Sentimentaliteit in de literatuur --- American literature --- History and criticism --- 20th century --- Lumpkin, Grace --- Johnson, Josephine Winslow --- Steinbeck, John --- Walker, Margaret Abigail --- Butler, Octavia E. --- Morrison, Toni --- Sentiments --- Littérature américaine --- Problèmes sociaux --- Littérature et société --- Dans la littérature --- Histoire et critique --- Sentimentalism in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Dans la littérature. --- Histoire et critique. --- Sentimentalisme (littérature) --- Sentimentalisme (littérature) --- Littérature américaine --- Problèmes sociaux --- Littérature et société --- Dans la littérature.

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"This volume explores the contours and content of the Black Chicago Renaissance. A movement crafted in the crucible of rigid racial segregation in Chicago's "Black Belt" from the 1930's through the 1960's, its participants were also heavily influenced by--and influenced --the Harlem Renaissance and the Chicago Renaissance of white writers. Despite harsh segregation, black and white thinkers influenced one another particularly through their engagements with leftist organizations. In many ways, politically, racially, spatially, this was a movement invested in cross-pollination, change, and political activism, as much as literature, art, and aesthetics as it prepared the way for the literature of the Black Arts Movement and beyond. The volume begins with a look at Richard Wright, indisputably a central figure in the Black Chicago Renaissance with the publication of "Blueprint for Negro Writing." Wright sought to distance himself from what he considered to be the failures of the Harlem Renaissance, even as he built upon its aesthetic and cultural legacy. Subsequent chapters discuss Robert Abbott, William Attaway, Claude Barnett, Henry Blakely, Aldon Bland, Edward Bland, Arna Bontemps, Gwendolyn Brooks, Frank London Brown, Alice Browning, Dan Burley, Margaret Danner, Frank Marshall Davis, Katherine Dunham, Richard Durham, Lorraine Hansberry, Fenton Johnson, John Johnson, Marian Minus, Williard Motley, Marita Bonner, Gordon Parks, John Sengstacke, Margaret Walker, Theodore Ward, Frank Yerby, Black newspapers, the Chicago School of Sociologists, the Federal Theater Project, Black Music, and John Reed Clubs"--

American literature --- Illinois (Etat) --- Chicago (Ill.) --- History and criticism --- 20th century --- African American authors --- Intellectual life --- Abbott, Robert S. --- Attaway, William A. --- Barnett, Claude A. --- Blakely, Henry Lowington --- Bland, Alden --- Bland, Edward --- Bonner, Marita --- Brooks, Gwendolyn --- Brown, Frank London --- Browning, Alice C. --- Burley, Dan --- Danner, Margaret Esse --- Davis, Frank Marshall --- Durham, Richard --- Johnson, Fenton --- Johnson, John H. --- Minus, Mattie Marian --- Motley, Willard Francis --- Parks, Gordon --- Sengstacke, John --- Walker, Margaret Abigail --- Ward, Theodore --- Wright, Richard --- Yerby, Frank --- English literature --- Agrarians (Group of writers) --- History and criticism. --- Chikago (Ill.) --- Chikaho (Ill.) --- City of Chicago (Ill.) --- Shiḳago (Ill.) --- Čikago (Ill.) --- شيكاغو (Ill.) --- Shīkāghū (Ill.) --- Çikaqo (Ill.) --- Чыкага (Ill.) --- Chykaha (Ill.) --- Чикаго (Ill.) --- Shikááʼgóó (Ill.) --- Σικάγο (Ill.) --- Sikago (Ill.) --- Kikako (Ill.) --- שיקגו (Ill.) --- Sicagum (Ill.) --- Chicagia (Ill.) --- Chiagum (Ill.) --- Čikāga (Ill.) --- シカゴ (Ill.) --- شکاگو (Ill.) --- Shikāgū (Ill.) --- Kyekago (Ill.) --- Tchicago (Ill.) --- שיקאגא (Ill.) --- Čėkaga (Ill.) --- 芝加哥 (Ill.) --- Zhijiage (Ill.)

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American literature --- Music --- anno 1900-1999 --- 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 --- Culture orale --- Folklore dans la littérature --- Folklore in de literatuur --- Folklore in literature --- Mondelinge overlevering --- Mondelinge traditie --- Music and literature --- Musique et littérature --- Muziek en literatuur --- Negroes in literature --- Noirs américains dans la littérature --- Oral tradition --- Orale [Tradition ] --- Orale cultuur --- Oralité (Tradition) --- Tradition [Oral ] --- Tradition orale --- Zwarte Amerikanen in de literatuur --- African American oral tradition. --- African Americans in literature. --- African Americans --- Folklore in literature. --- Literature and folklore --- Music and literature. --- Intellectual life --- African American authors --- History and criticism. --- History --- African American oral tradition --- Literature and music --- Literature --- Folklore and literature --- Literature and folk-lore --- Folklore --- English literature --- Agrarians (Group of writers) --- Afro-American oral tradition --- Oral tradition, African American --- African American authors&delete& --- History and criticism --- 20th century --- United States --- Dunbar, Paul Laurence --- Criticism and interpretation --- Hughes, Langston --- Brown, Sterling, --- Williams, Sherley Anne --- Harper, Michael S. --- Hurston, Zora Neale --- Toomer, Jean --- Hairston, Loyle --- Petry, Ann Lane --- Ellison, Ralph Waldo --- Baraka, Imamu Amiri --- Walker, Margaret Abigail --- Morrison, Toni