Dividing lines :: class anxiety and postbellum black fiction /
The author explores how African American literature in the late 19th century represents class divisions among Black Americans. By portraying complex, highly stratified communities with a growing Black middle class, authors dispelled popular notions that Black Americans were uniformly poor or uncivil...
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| Zusammenfassung: | The author explores how African American literature in the late 19th century represents class divisions among Black Americans. By portraying complex, highly stratified communities with a growing Black middle class, authors dispelled popular notions that Black Americans were uniformly poor or uncivilized. But even as the writers highlighted middle-class achievement, they worried over whether class distinctions would help or sabotage collective Black protest against racial prejudice. The author argues that the signs of class anxiety are embedded in postbellum fiction: from the verbal stammer or prim speech of class-conscious characters to fissures in the fiction's form. In these telling moments, authors innovatively dared to address the sensitive topic of class differences - a topic inextricably related to American civil rights and social opportunity. |
| Beschreibung: | 1 online resource |
| Bibliographie: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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| spelling | Williams, Andreá N. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2003114314 Dividing lines : class anxiety and postbellum black fiction / Andreá N. Williams. Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2012] 1 online resource text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier data file rda Class : culture Includes bibliographical references and index. Introduction : Contending classes, dividing lines -- The language of class : taxonomy and respectability in Frances E.W. Harper's Trial and triumph and Iola Leroy -- Working through class : the Black body, labor, and leisure in Sutton Griggs's Overshadowed -- Mapping class difference : space and social mobility in Paul L. Dunbar's short fiction -- Blood and the mark of class : Pauline Hopkins's genealogies of status -- Classing the color line : class-passing, antiracism, and Charles W. Chesnutt -- Epilogue : beyond the talented tenth. The author explores how African American literature in the late 19th century represents class divisions among Black Americans. By portraying complex, highly stratified communities with a growing Black middle class, authors dispelled popular notions that Black Americans were uniformly poor or uncivilized. But even as the writers highlighted middle-class achievement, they worried over whether class distinctions would help or sabotage collective Black protest against racial prejudice. The author argues that the signs of class anxiety are embedded in postbellum fiction: from the verbal stammer or prim speech of class-conscious characters to fissures in the fiction's form. In these telling moments, authors innovatively dared to address the sensitive topic of class differences - a topic inextricably related to American civil rights and social opportunity. Print version record. American fiction African American authors History and criticism. Social classes in literature. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85123925 Social status in literature. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94008642 Roman américain Auteurs noirs américains Histoire et critique. Classes sociales dans la littérature. Statut social dans la littérature. LITERARY CRITICISM American General. bisacsh SOCIAL SCIENCE Social Classes. bisacsh American fiction African American authors fast Social classes in literature fast Social status in literature fast Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast has work: Dividing lines (Text) https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCGYYpd378tBPJBvP8H8FYX https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/ontology/hasWork Print version: 9780472118618 0472118617 (DLC) 2012033641 Class, culture. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2007034824 FWS01 ZDB-4-EBA FWS_PDA_EBA https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=520822 Volltext |
| spellingShingle | Williams, Andreá N. Dividing lines : class anxiety and postbellum black fiction / Class, culture. Introduction : Contending classes, dividing lines -- The language of class : taxonomy and respectability in Frances E.W. Harper's Trial and triumph and Iola Leroy -- Working through class : the Black body, labor, and leisure in Sutton Griggs's Overshadowed -- Mapping class difference : space and social mobility in Paul L. Dunbar's short fiction -- Blood and the mark of class : Pauline Hopkins's genealogies of status -- Classing the color line : class-passing, antiracism, and Charles W. Chesnutt -- Epilogue : beyond the talented tenth. American fiction African American authors History and criticism. Social classes in literature. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85123925 Social status in literature. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94008642 Roman américain Auteurs noirs américains Histoire et critique. Classes sociales dans la littérature. Statut social dans la littérature. LITERARY CRITICISM American General. bisacsh SOCIAL SCIENCE Social Classes. bisacsh American fiction African American authors fast Social classes in literature fast Social status in literature fast |
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| title | Dividing lines : class anxiety and postbellum black fiction / |
| title_auth | Dividing lines : class anxiety and postbellum black fiction / |
| title_exact_search | Dividing lines : class anxiety and postbellum black fiction / |
| title_full | Dividing lines : class anxiety and postbellum black fiction / Andreá N. Williams. |
| title_fullStr | Dividing lines : class anxiety and postbellum black fiction / Andreá N. Williams. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Dividing lines : class anxiety and postbellum black fiction / Andreá N. Williams. |
| title_short | Dividing lines : |
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| title_sub | class anxiety and postbellum black fiction / |
| topic | American fiction African American authors History and criticism. Social classes in literature. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85123925 Social status in literature. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94008642 Roman américain Auteurs noirs américains Histoire et critique. Classes sociales dans la littérature. Statut social dans la littérature. LITERARY CRITICISM American General. bisacsh SOCIAL SCIENCE Social Classes. bisacsh American fiction African American authors fast Social classes in literature fast Social status in literature fast |
| topic_facet | American fiction African American authors History and criticism. Social classes in literature. Social status in literature. Roman américain Auteurs noirs américains Histoire et critique. Classes sociales dans la littérature. Statut social dans la littérature. LITERARY CRITICISM American General. SOCIAL SCIENCE Social Classes. American fiction African American authors Social classes in literature Social status in literature Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
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