Jim Crow, Literature, and the Legacy of Sutton E. Griggs - Chakkalakal, Tess (University of Georgia Press, 2013)
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Sutton Griggs and the Borderlands of Empire; Empires at Home and Abroad in Sutton E. Griggs's Imperium in Imperio; Edward Everett Hale's and Sutton E. Griggs's Men without a Country; Moving Up a Dead-End Ladder: Black Class Mobility, Death, and Narrative Closure in Sutton Griggs's Overshadowed; Social Darwinism, American Imperialism, and the Origins of the Science of Collective Efficiency in Sutton E. Griggs's Unfettered; Reading in Sutton E. Griggs
Sutton E. Griggs against Thomas Dixon's "Vile Misrepresentations": The Hindered Hand and The Leopard's SpotsHarnessing the Niagara: Sutton E. Griggs's The Hindered Hand; Jim Crow and the House of Fiction: Charles W. Chesnutt's and Sutton E. Griggs's Last Novels; Perfecting the Political Romance: The Last Novel of Sutton Griggs; Chronology: The Life and Times of Sutton E. Griggs; Selected Bibliography; Contributors; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z.
Imperium in Imperio (1899) was the first black novel to countenance openly the possibility of organized black violence against Jim Crow segregation. Its author, a Baptist minister and newspaper editor from Texas, Sutton E. Griggs (1872-1933), would go on to publish four more novels; establish his own publishing company, one of the first secular publishing houses owned and operated by an African American in the United States; and help to found the American Baptist Theological Seminary in Tennessee. Alongside W.E.B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington, Griggs was a key political and literary voic
Includes bibliographical references and index