Dividing lines : class anxiety and postbellum black fiction

Dividing lines class anxiety and postbellum black fiction

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...

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1. Verfasser: Williams, Andreá N. (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Ann Arbor, Mich. University of Michigan Press 2013
Schriftenreihe:Class culture
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American fiction > African American authors > Social classes in literature > Social status in literature > Bibliografie > USA > Schwarze > Literatur > Soziale Klasse > Geschichte 1892-1903
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Zusammenfassung: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.
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-212) and index
Beschreibung:222 S.
24 cm
ISBN:9780472118618
978-0-472-11861-8