Mockingbird Grows Up : Re-Reading Harper Lee since Watchman

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Michele Reutter

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

To kill a mockingbird (Lee, Harper).

Go set a watchman (Lee, Harper).

Lee, Harper.

Lee, Harper. Go set a watchman.

Lee, Harper. To kill a mockingbird.

Lee, Harper--Criticism and interpretation.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (279 pages).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Lightning Source Inc. (Tier 3) 2024

Summary:

"This collection, the first to consider Harper Lee's late novel, focuses on re-reading To Kill a Mockingbird in light of the publication of Go Set a Watchman. The essays range from evaluations of the characters, setting, and themes of To Kill a Mockingbird through the backward lens of Go Set a Watchman to studies of race, sexuality, and how the characters change in Harper Lee's posthumous novel. Three essays focus on teaching both of Lee's novels to students familiar with the canonical To Kill a Mockingbird and to a new generation not yet introduced to Lee"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Part 1: Mockingbird Disrupted. Mockingbird's First Draft: How Go Set a Watchman Was Made to Come Out / Jonathan S. Cullick

Go Set a Watchman as Southern Pastoral: American Literature, "My Atticus," and the Past that Never Was / Holly Blackford

Part 2: Mockingbird Revisited. Atticus Revised: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Go Set a Watchman and To Kill a Mockingbird / Laura Fine

"Your Father's Passin';" or, How to Lynch Tom Robinson and Still Feel Right / Leland S. Person

Atticus Finch: A Civilized Huck Finn / Patricia F. D'Ascoli

"I Got Somethin' to Say!": Mayella Violet Ewell in Robert Mulligan's Film To Kill a Mockingbird / Kwakiutl L. Dreher

Part 3: Mockingbird Contextualized. "With All Your Book Learnin':" Ignorance and Literacy in Go Set a Watchman / Adam Nemmers

Building Context to Read the Relationship between Scout and Calpurnia in Mockingbird and Watchman / Audrey Fisch and Susan Chenelle

"Command of Two Languages:" Language Awareness and Acceptance with Calpurnia / Brandie Bohney

Queer Absences: Christian Polemics and Boo Radley / Cheli Reutter

Part 4: Mockinbird Reimagined. Fear / Vulnerability / Anger: Teaching To Kill a Mockingbird in the Era of Black Lives Matter / Monica Carol Miller

In Spite of Watchful Men: Harper Lee, Zora Neale Hurston, the Limits of Order Regionalism, and Feminist Hope / Jericho Williams

Teaching Mockingbird in the Post-Watchman Classroom / Jonathan S. Cullick

Epilogue: Revisiting Monroeville, Alabama, and Maycomb, USA / Cheli Reutter.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781621905479

1621905470

OCLC:

1110156572