Scary Mason-Dixon Line: African American Writers and the South

by Trudier Harris

Book Overview

New Yorker James Baldwin once declared that a black man can look at a map of the United States, contemplate the area south of the Mason-Dixon Line, and thus scare himself to death. In The Scary Mason-Dixon Line, renowned literary scholar Trudier Harris explores why black writers, whether born in Mississippi, New York, or elsewhere, have consistently both loved and hated the South. Harris explains that for these authors the South represents not...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807152307
• ISBN13: 9780807152300
• Release Date: February 2013
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 262 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.4"