{"product_id":"living-jim-crow-the-segregated-town-in-mid-century-southern-fiction-9781474461580","title":"Living Jim Crow: The Segregated Town in Mid-Century Southern Fiction","description":"\u003cp\u003eExplores how novelists of the mid-century US South invented small towns to aesthetically undermine racial segregation\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eInvestigates the role of writing in the civil right movement\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eExplores neglected writers\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eUncovers new readings of canonical texts\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eModels a new form of critical reading based on close textual analysis\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eInterrogates the relationship between literary production and social protest\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnalysing the ubiquity of the small town in fiction of the mid-century US South, \u003ci\u003eLiving Jim Crow\u003c\/i\u003e is the first extended scholarly study to explore how authors mobilised this setting as a tool for racial resistance. With innovative close readings of Zora Neale Hurston, Richard Wright, Lillian Smith, Byron Herbert Reece, Carson McCullers, William Faulkner and William Melvin Kelley, the book traces the relationship between activism and aesthetics during the long civil rights movement. Lennon reframes a narrative of southern literature during the period as one as one characterised by an aesthetics of protest, identifying a new mode of reading racial resistance and the US South. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Lennon, Gavan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/17\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Edinburgh University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781474461580\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 264\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.68lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.55d","brand":"Gavan Lennon","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39789802324043,"sku":"9781474461580","price":35.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0021\/1697\/6715\/products\/img_127c5a16-c588-410a-94cf-c6e36f90f4ed.jpg?v=1655824226","url":"https:\/\/blackbookstore.com\/products\/living-jim-crow-the-segregated-town-in-mid-century-southern-fiction-9781474461580","provider":"Black Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}