Neo-Segregation Narratives: Jim Crow in Post-Civil Rights American Literature

by Brian Norman

This study of what Brian Norman terms a neo-segregation narrative tradition examines literary depictions of life under Jim Crow that were written well after the civil rights movement.

From Toni Morrison's first novel, The Bluest Eye, to bestselling black fiction of the 1980s to a string of recent work by black and nonblack authors and artists, Jim Crow haunts the post-civil rights imagination. Norman traces a neo-segregation narrative...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820335975
• ISBN13: 9780820335971
• Release Date: November 2010
• Publisher: University of Georgia Press
• Length: 212 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"