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The scary Mason-Dixon Line : African American writers and the South / Trudier Harris.
Van Pelt Library PS153.N5 H293 2009
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Harris, Trudier.
- Series:
- Southern literary studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American literature--African American authors--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- American literature--African American authors.
- Racism--Psychological aspects.
- Racism.
- Slavery--Psychological aspects.
- Slavery.
- Southern States--In literature.
- Southern States.
- African Americans in literature.
- Fear in literature.
- African Americans--Race identity.
- African Americans.
- African Americans--Psychology.
- Literature and history--United States--History--20th century.
- Literature and history.
- United States.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 247 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2009]
- Contents:
- 1 Such A Frightening Musical Form: / James Baldwin's Blues for Mister Charlie (1964) 19
- 2 Fear of Manhood in the Wake of Systemic Racism in / Ernest J. Gaines's "Three Men" (1968) 41
- 3 The Irresistible Appeal of Slavery: Fear of Losing the Self in / Octavia E. Butler's Kindred (1979) 62
- 4 Owning the Script, Owning the Self: Transcendence of Fear in / Sherley Anne, William's Dessa Rose (1986) 81
- 5 10,000 Miles from Dixie and Still in the South: Fear of Transplanted Racism in / Yusef Komunyakaa's, Vietnam Poetry, Dien Cai Dau (1988) 101
- 6 Fear of Family, Christianity, and the Self: Black Southern "Othering" in / Randall Kenan's A Visitation of Spirits (1989) 115
- 7 A Haunting Diary and a Slasher Quilt: Using Dynamic Folk Communities to Combat Terror in Phyllis / Alesia Perry's Stigmata (1998) 133
- 8 Domesticating Fear: / Tayari Jones's Mission in Leaving Atlanta (2002) 151
- 9 The Worst Fear Imaginable: Black Slave Owners in / Edward P. Jones's The Known World (2003) 174
- 10 No Fear; or, Autoerotic Creativity: How Raymond Andrews Pleasures Himself in Baby Sweet's (1983) 195.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-233) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780807133958
- 0807133957
- 9780801833953
- 0801833957
- OCLC:
- 234257235
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