Black stereotypes in popular series fiction, 1851-1955 : Jim Crow era authors and their characters / Bernard A. Drew.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Drew, Bernard A. (Bernard Alger), 1950- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American fiction--19th century--History and criticism.

American fiction.

American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.

African Americans in literature.

Stereotypes (Social psychology) in literature.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

ix, 280 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2015]

Summary:

"Even well-meaning fiction writers of the late Jim Crow era (1900-1955) perpetuated racial stereotypes in their depiction of black characters.The best known white writers of black characters included Booth Tarkington, Irvin S. Cobb, Roark Bradford, Hugh Wiley, Charles Correll and Freeman Gosden. These writers left a curious legacy that deserves examination"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

I Writers of the Antebellum, Reconstruction and Early Jim Crow Era (1851-1899) 19

Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896) 20

Mark Twain (1835-1910) 23

Joel Chandler Harris (1848-1908) 25

George Washington Cable (1844-1925) 29

Thomas Nelson Page (1853-1922) 30

Charles W. Chesnutt (1858-1932) 32

Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906) 35

II Writers of the Late Jim Crow Era (1900-1955) 37

Richard F. Outcault (1863-1928) 37

Henry Edwards Cowen ("Red Buck") Bryant (1873-1967) 45

Bridges Smith (1848-1930) 49

Harris Dickson (1868-1946) 71

Irvin S. Cobb (1876-1944) 77

E.K. (Eldred Kurtz) Means (1878-1957) 88

Booth Tarkington (1869-1946) 96

James P. Alley (1885-1934) and Calvin Alley (1915-1970) 106

Ambrose E. Gonzales (1857-1926) 113

Robert McBlair (1888-1976) 118

Octavus Roy Cohen (1891-1959) 122

Harry Stillwell Edwards (1855-1938) 159

Arthur LeRoy Kaser (1890-1956) 164

Hugh Wiley (1884-1968) 170

Arthur K. Akers (1886-1980) 179

Roark Bradford (1896-1948) 183

Charles Correll (1890-1972) and Freeman F. Gosden (1899-1982) 199

Paul E Ernst (1899-1985) 215

Will Eisner (1917-2005) 218

Langston Hughes (1902-1967) 228

III Additional Writers of Interest 244

Phillis Wheatley (1753-1784) 245

Robert Roberts (1780-1860) 245

Thomas D. Rice (1808-1860) 245

John Pendleton Kennedy (1795-1870) 246

George Washington Dixon (1801-1861) 246

Augustus Baldwin Longstreet (1790-1870) 247

Caroline Gilman (1794-1888) 247

Lydia Maria Child (1802-1880) 247

Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) 248

William Wells Brown (1814-1884) 248

E.D.E.N. Southworth (1819-1899) 249

Mary Henderson Eastman (1818-1887) 249

Maria J. McIntosh (1803-1878) 250

Caroline Lee Hentz (1800-1856) 250

Mary J. Holmes (1825-1907) 250

Thomas Chandler Haliburton (1796-1865) 251

Johnson Jones Hooper (1815-1862) 251

Martin Delany (1812-1885) 251

Harriet E. Wilson (1825-1900) 252

Harriet Ann Jacobs (1813-1897) 252

Petroleum V. Nasby (1833-1888) 253

Samuel W. Small (1851-1931) 253

Irwin Russell (1853-1879) 254

Thomas Worth (1834-1917) 254

Colonel Prentiss Ingraham (1843-1904) 255

Louise Clarke Pyrnelle (1850-1907) 255

Katherine Sherwood Bonner McDowell (1849-1883) 256

Ruth McEnery Stuart (1849-1917) 256

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825-1911) 256

Polk Miller (1844-1913) 257

John Trotwood Moore (1858-1929) 257

Kate Chopin (1851-1904) 258

Opie Pope Read (1852-1939) 258

Bob Cole (1868-1911) 259

Miss Howard Weeden (1846-1905) 259

Martha Sawyer Gielow (1860-1933) 260

Helen Bannerman (1862-1946) 260

Alice Dunbar-Nelson (1875-1935) 261

Will N. Harben (1858-1919) 261

Booker T. Washington (1856-1915) 261

Martha Strudwtck Young (1862-1941) 262

John Charles McNeill (1874-1907) 262

Frederick H. Seymour (1850-1913) 262

James D. Corrothers (1869-1917) 263

W.E.B. Du Bois (1868-1963) 263

Ella Middleton Tybout (1871-1952) 264

Silas Xavier Floyd (1869-1923) 264

William Marriner (1873-1914) 265

John F. Dixon Jr. (1864-1946) 265

Sara Cone Bryant (1873-?) 266

Frances Boyd Calhoun (1867-1909) and Emma Speed Sampson (1868-1947) 266

Joseph S. Cotter, Jr. (1861-1949) 267

James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938) 267

Marion F. Harmon (1861-1940) 268

B.B. Valentine (1862-1919) 269

Julia Mead Peterkin (1880-1961) 269

Robert Emmet Kennedy (1877-1941) 269

Jane Baldwin Cotton (d. 1932) 270

Nclla Larsen (1891-1964) 270

Charles E. Mack (1887-1934) 271

Annie Vaughan Weaver (1905-1982) 271

Inez Hogan (1895-1973) 272

E.V. White (1879 1955) 272

Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960) 272

Richard Wright (1908-1960) 273

Ellen Tiny (1906 2008) 273

Enid Blyton (1897-1968) 274

Jackie Ormes (1911-1985) 274

Ralph Ellison (1914-1994) 275

James Baldwin (1924-1987) 275

Lorraine Hansberry (1930-1965) 275.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780786474103

0786474106

OCLC:

895338256