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ISBN-13: | 9780807847770 |
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Publisher: | The University of North Carolina Press |
Publication date: | 09/20/1999 |
Edition description: | 1 |
Pages: | 232 |
Product dimensions: | 6.12(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.52(d) |
About the Author
Table of Contents
CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Whatever Else the True American Is, He Is Also Somehow Black
Chapter 1. Moving among the Living as Ghosts: A Historical Overview
Chapter 2. Private Violence Desirable: Race, Sex, and Sadism in Wilbur J. Cash's The Mind of the South
Chapter 3. Men of Honor and Pygmy Tribes: Metaphors of Race and Cultural Decline in William Alexander Percy's Lanterns on the Levee
Chapter 4. I Know the Fears by Heart: Segregation as Metaphor in the Work of Lillian Smith
Chapter 5. The Sadness Made Her Feel Queer: Race, Gender, and the Grotesque in the Early Writings of Carson McCullers
Conclusion: Thirteen Ways of Looking at Whiteness
Notes
Bibliography
Index
What People are Saying About This
An intelligent discussion of the way the subject of race has dominated white southern expression.The Journal of American History
[This book] should be bought, discussed, argued about, and taught.Journal of Southern History
This thoroughly researched book enters the contemporary literary and cultural discussion in an up-to-date, highly relevant fashion which makes it central to modern studies of race, sex, and culture in Southern literature.Virginia Quarterly Review
[An] erudite and thought-provoking book.Newark Star-Ledger
Jenkins offers some perceptive analyses. . . . He shows how issues of race are never that far from the surface in American books, and Southern ones in particular.Times Literary Supplement
Lillian Smith's arresting analysis of the ways in which the 'drug of whiteness' functioned in the Southern past is brilliantly contextualized in this exciting book. Concentrating on Smith and three other white antiracist writers, Jenkins explores the ways in which they struggled to capture the terrible effects of racism in suppressing awareness of misery among whites, even as they fought and narcotized their own demons by thinking through race.David R. Roediger, University of Minnesota
McKay Jenkins offers a fresh understanding of the psychosocial tensions that crippled white Southerners for so long, and which indeed have haunted the entire nation, as Toni Morrison so persuasively argues in Playing in the Dark. Cash, Percy, Smith, and McCullers are all important chroniclers of their region's hidden life in the pre-Civil Rights twentieth century, and they have not previously been seen in this kind of rewarding conjunction. Especially refreshing is the complexity of Jenkins's arguments, with their resistance to doctrinaire theoretical positions.Louise Westling, University of Oregon