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.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (291 p.)

Place of Publication:

Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Comapny, Inc., Publishers, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Even well-meaning fiction writers of the late Jim Crow era (1900-1955) perpetuated racial stereotypes in their depiction of black characters. From 1918 to 1952, Octavus Roy Cohen turned out a remarkable 360 short stories featuring Florian Slappey and the schemers, romancers and ditzes of Birmingham's Darktown for The Saturday Evening Post and other publications. Cohen said, ""I received a great deal of mail from Negroes and I have never found any resentment from a one of them."" The black readership had to be satisfied with any black presence in the popular literature of the day. The best know

Contents:

Cover; Table of Contents; Preface; Introduction: If That Is the Way They Are in Stories, That Must Be the Way They Are in Life; I. Writers of the Antebellum, Reconstruction and Early Jim Crow Era (1851-1899); Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896); Mark Twain (1835-1910); Joel Chandler Harris (1848-1908); George Washington Cable (1844-1925); Thomas Nelson Page (1853-1922); Charles W. Chesnutt (1858-1932); Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906); II. Writers of the Late Jim Crow Era (1900-1955); Richard F. Outcault (1863-1928); Henry Edwards Cowen ("Red Buck") Bryant (1873-1967); Bridges Smith (1848-1930)

Harris Dickson (1868-1946)Irvin S. Cobb (1876-1944); E.K. (Eldred Kurtz) Means (1878-1957); Booth Tarkington (1869-1946); James P. Alley (1885-1934) and Calvin Alley (1915-1970); Ambrose E. Gonzales (1857-1926); Robert McBlair (1888-1976); Octavus Roy Cohen (1891-1959); Harry Stillwell Edwards (1855-1938); Arthur LeRoy Kaser (1890-1956); Hugh Wiley (1884-1968); Arthur K. Akers (1886-1980); Roark Bradford (1896-1948); Charles Correll (1890-1972) and Freeman F. Gosden (1899-1982); Paul F. Ernst (1899-1985); Will Eisner (1917-2005); Langston Hughes (1902-1967)

III. Additional Writers of InterestPhillis Wheatley (1753-1784); Robert Roberts (1780-1860); Thomas D. Rice (1808-1860); John Pendleton Kennedy (1795-1870); George Washington Dixon (1801-1861); Augustus Baldwin Longstreet (1790-1870); Caroline Gilman (1794-1888); Lydia Maria Child (1802-1880); Frederick Douglass (1818-1895); William Wells Brown (1814-1884); E.D.E.N. Southworth (1819-1899); Mary Henderson Eastman (1818-1887); Maria J. McIntosh (1803-1878); Caroline Lee Hentz (1800-1856); Mary J. Holmes (1825-1907); Thomas Chandler Haliburton (1796-1865); Johnson Jones Hooper (1815-1862)

Martin Delany (1812-1885)Harriet E. Wilson (1825-1900); Harriet Ann Jacobs (1813-1897); Petroleum V. Nasby (1833-1888); Samuel W. Small (1851-1931); Irwin Russell (1853-1879); Thomas Worth (1834-1917); Colonel Prentiss Ingraham (1843-1904); Louise Clarke Pyrnelle (1850-1907); Katherine Sherwood Bonner McDowell (1849-1883); Ruth McEnery Stuart (1849-1917); Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825-1911); Polk Miller (1844-1913); John Trotwood Moore (1858-1929); Kate Chopin (1851-1904); Opie Pope Read (1852-1939); Bob Cole (1868-1911); Miss Howard Weeden (1846-1905); Martha Sawyer Gielow (1860-1933)

Helen Bannerman (1862-1946)Alice Dunbar- Nelson (1875-1935); Will N. Harben (1858-1919); Booker T. Washington (1856-1915); Martha Strudwick Young (1862-1941); John Charles McNeill (1874-1907); Frederick H. Seymour (1850-1913); James D. Corrothers (1869-1917); W.E.B. Du Bois (1868-1963); Ella Middleton Tybout (1871-1952 ); Silas Xavier Floyd (1869-1923); William Marriner (1873-1914); John F. Dixon Jr. (1864-1946); Sara Cone Bryant (1873-?); Frances Boyd Calhoun (1867-1909) and Emma Speed Sampson (1868-1947); Joseph S. Cotter, Jr. (1861-1949); James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938)

Marion F. Harmon (1861-1940)

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Drew, Bernard A. (Bernard Alger), 1950- Black stereotypes in popular series fiction, 1851-1955 : Jim Crow era authors and their characters.

ISBN:

0-7864-7410-6

1-4766-1610-8