Sitting in darkness : New South fiction, education, and the rise of Jim Crow colonialism, 1865-1920 / Peter Schmidt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schmidt, Peter, 1951 December 23-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American fiction--Southern States--History and criticism.

American fiction.

African Americans in literature.

Education in literature.

Race relations in literature.

Imperialism in literature.

Citizenship in literature.

Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) in literature.

Literature and history--United States--History--19th century.

Literature and history.

Literature and history--United States--History--20th century.

Southern States--In literature.

Southern States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (272 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Sitting in Darkness explores how fiction of the Reconstruction and the New South intervenes in debates over black schools, citizen-building, Jim Crow discrimination, and U.S. foreign policy towards its territories and dependencies. The author urges a reexamination not only of the contents and formal innovations of New South literature but also its importance in U.S. literary history. Many rarely studied fiction authors (such as Ellwood Griest, Ellen Ingraham, George Marion McClellan, and Walter Hines Page) receive generous attention here, and well-known figures such as Albion Tourg--and--eacut

Contents:

Changing views of post-Civil War Black education in the fiction of Lydia Maria Child, Ellwood Griest, and Constance Fenimore Woolson (1867-1878)

A fool's education : Albion Tourgee's A fool's errand, The invisible empire, and Bricks without straw (1879-1880)

Of the people, by the people, and for the people : Frances E.W. Harper's cultural work in Iola Leroy (1892)

Conflicted race nationalism : Sutton Griggs's Imperium in imperio (1899)

Lynching and the liberal arts : rediscovering George Marion McClellan's Old Greenbottom Inn and other stories (1906)

JIm Crow colonialism's dependancy model for "uplift": promotion and reaction

Ghosts of Reconstruction : Samuel C. Armstrong, Booker T. Washington, and the disciplinary regimes of Jim Crow colonialism

From planter paternalism to Uncle Sam's largesse abroad : Ellen M. Ingraham's Bond and free (1882) and Marietta Holley's Samantha at the St. Louis Exposition (1904)

Counter-statements to Jim Crow colonialism : Mark Twain's "To the person sitting in darkness" (1901) and Aurelio Tolentino's Yesterday, today, and tomorrow (1905)

Educating whites to be white on the global frontier : hypnotism and ambivalence in Thomas Dixon and Owen Wister (1900-1905)

The dark archive: early twentieth-century critiques of Jim Crow colonialism by New South novelists

The education of Walter Hines Page : a gentleman's disagreement with the New South in The Southerner, being the autobiography of "Nicholas Worth" (1909)

Anti-colonial education? : W.E.B. Du Bois's Quest of the silver fleece (1911) and Darkwater (1920)

Romancing multiracial democracy : George Washington Cable's Lovers of Louisiana (to-day) (1918).

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 236-252) and index.

ISBN:

1-283-21043-6

9786613210432

1-60473-311-X

OCLC:

503441545