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  1. The other 1980s
    reframing comics' crucial decade
    Contributor: Costello, Brannon (Publisher); Cremins, Brian (Publisher)
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge

    "Fans and scholars have long regarded the 1980s as a significant turning point in the history of comics in the U.S. The decade saw titles such as Art Spiegelman's "Maus", Frank Miller's "Batman: The Dark Knight Returns", and Alan Moore and Dave... more

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    "Fans and scholars have long regarded the 1980s as a significant turning point in the history of comics in the U.S. The decade saw titles such as Art Spiegelman's "Maus", Frank Miller's "Batman: The Dark Knight Returns", and Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons's "Watchmen" celebrated by both readers and critics alike, even attracting the attention of prominent publications including the "New York Times," the "Atlantic," and "Rolling Stone." Three decades later, most of the critical discussion of the period still focuses on these three books and their creators, eclipsing the work of others who also played a key role in shaping comics as we know them today. With twenty essays covering a diverse array of material, "The Other 1980s: Reframing Comics' Crucial Decade" offers a more complicated and multivalent picture of this remarkably robust era of ambitious comics publishing. Many of the works considered in this volume were hailed as innovative and groundbreaking in their day, but they have fallen to the wayside, in some cases because they do not easily square with the dominant tendencies in comics studies. Instead, "The Other 1980s" illuminates works that prove far more unwieldy, though no less interesting: open-ended serials that do not translate neatly to the graphic novel format beloved by literature departments; sprawling superhero narratives with no connection to corporate superhero universes; offbeat and abandoned experiments by major publishers, including Marvel and DC, to reach new audiences; idiosyncratic and experimental independent comics; unusual genre exercises filtered through deeply personal sensibilities; and oft-neglected offshoots of the classic "underground" comics movement of the 1960s and 1970s. The contributors also offer original and enlightening examinations of the ways in which the fans and critics of the day engaged with creators and publishers and laid the groundwork for much of the contemporary critical and academic discourse on comics. By uncovering comics and creators long ignored by comics studies, "The Other 1980s" offers a more nuanced understanding of the context from which the iconic works of the 1980s emerged and revises conventional histories of this major period in comics"--

     
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    Contributor: Costello, Brannon (Publisher); Cremins, Brian (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780807175507; 9780807175514
    RVK Categories: EC 7120 ; HU 1821
    Subjects: Comic
    Other subjects: Comic books, strips, etc / United States / History / 20th century; Nineteen eighties; Comic books, strips, etc; Nineteen eighties; United States; 1900-1999; History
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (vi, 355 Seiten), Illustrationen
  2. Plantation airs
    racial paternalism and the transformations of class in southern fiction, 1945 - 1971
    Author: Costello, Brannon
    Published: 2007
    Publisher:  Louisiana State Univ. Press, Baton Rouge, La.

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    Universität Mainz, Bereichsbibliothek Georg Forster-Gebäude / USA-Bibliothek
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    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9780807132708; 0807132705
    RVK Categories: HU 1691
    Series: Southern literary studies
    Subjects: Literatur; Paternalismus <Motiv>; Ethnische Beziehungen <Motiv>; Soziale Klasse <Motiv>
    Scope: X, 203 S., 23 cm
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    Literaturverz. S. 187 - 196
  3. Jujitsu for Christ
    Author: Butler, Jack
    Published: 2013
    Publisher:  University Press of Mississippi, Jackson ; ProQuest, Ann Arbor, Michigan

    Jack Butler's Jujitsu for Christ--originally published in 1986--follows the adventures of Roger Wing, a white born-again Christian and karate instructor who opens a martial arts studio in downtown Jackson, Mississippi, during the tensest years of the... more

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    Jack Butler's Jujitsu for Christ--originally published in 1986--follows the adventures of Roger Wing, a white born-again Christian and karate instructor who opens a martial arts studio in downtown Jackson, Mississippi, during the tensest years of the Civil Rights era. Ambivalent about his religion and his region, he befriends the Gandys, an African-American family--parents A. L. and Snower Mae, teenaged son T. J., daughter Eleanor Roosevelt, and youngest son Marcus--who has moved to Jackson from the Delta in hopes of greater opportunity for their children. As the political heat rises, Roger and the Gandys find their lives intersecting in unexpected ways. Their often-hilarious interactions are told against the backdrop of Mississippi's racial trauma--Governor Ross Barnett's "I Love Mississippi" speech at the 1962 Ole Miss-Kentucky football game in Jackson; the riots at the University of Mississippi over James Meredith's admission; the fieldwork of Medgar Evers, the NAACP, and various activist organizations; and the lingering aura of Emmett Till's lynching. Drawing not only on William Faulkner's gothic-modernist Yoknapatawpha County but also on Edgar Rice Burroughs's high-adventure Martian pulps, Jujitsu for Christ powerfully illuminates vexed questions of racial identity and American history, revealing complexities and subtleties too often overlooked. It is a remarkable novel about the civil rights era, and how our memories of that era continue to shape our political landscape and to resonate in contemporary conversations about southern identity. But, mostly, it's very funny, in a mode that's experimental, playful, sexy, and disturbing all at once. Butler offers a new foreword to the novel. Brannon Costello, a scholar of contemporary southern literature and fan of Butler's work, writes an afterword that situates the novel in its historical context... and in the southern literary canon.

     
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    Contributor: Costello, Brannon
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781621039273
    Series: Banner Books Series
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (226 pages)
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  4. Comics and the U.S. South
    Contributor: Costello, Brannon (Hrsg.)
    Published: 2012
    Publisher:  Univ. Press of .Mississippi, Jackson, Miss.

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    Universität Mainz, Bereichsbibliothek Georg Forster-Gebäude / USA-Bibliothek
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    Contributor: Costello, Brannon (Hrsg.)
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9781617030185; 161703018X
    RVK Categories: LC 84610
    Edition: 1. print.
    Subjects: Comic; USA <Motiv>; Ethnizität <Motiv>
    Scope: XVI, 342 S., Ill., 23x15x2 cm
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    Literaturangaben
  5. Conversations with Michael Chabon
    Contributor: Chabon, Michael; Costello, Brannon (Publisher)
    Published: 2015
    Publisher:  University Press of Mississippi, Jackson

    "Since the publication of his first novel, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, launched him to fame, Michael Chabon has become one of contemporary literature's most acclaimed novelists by pursuing his singular vision across all boundaries of genre and... more

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    "Since the publication of his first novel, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, launched him to fame, Michael Chabon has become one of contemporary literature's most acclaimed novelists by pursuing his singular vision across all boundaries of genre and medium. A firm believer that reading even the most challenging literature should be a fundamentally pleasurable experience, Chabon has produced an astonishingly diverse body of work that includes detective novels, weird tales of horror, alternative history science fiction, and rollicking chronichles of swashbuckling adventure alongside tender coming-of-age stories, sprawling social novels, and narratives of intense introspection. Uniting them all is Chabon's utterly distinct prose style...exuberant and graceful, sometimes ironic but never cynical. His work has earned accolades ranging from the Pulitzer Prize to Hugo and Nebula Awards. Conversations with Michael Chabon collects eighteen revealing interviews with the renowned author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, The Yiddish Policeman's Union, and other much-admired works. Spanning nearly twenty years and drawn from science fiction fan magazines and literary journals alike, these interviews shed new light on the central concerns of Chabon's fiction. These interviews are essential reading for anyone seeking a better understanding of the life and work of an author who has been instrumental in defining the landscape of contemporary American fiction"...

     
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  6. Comics and the US South
    Contributor: Costello, Brannon (Publisher)
    Published: 2012
    Publisher:  Univ. Press of Mississippi, Jackson

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    Contributor: Costello, Brannon (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9781617030185
    RVK Categories: HU 1540
    Subjects: Comic books, strips, etc; Race in literature; Ethnizität <Motiv>; Comic; USA <Motiv>
    Scope: XVI, 342 S., Ill.
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    Includes bibliographical references and index
  7. Comics and the US South
    Contributor: Costello, Brannon (Publisher)
    Published: 2012
    Publisher:  Univ. Press of Mississippi, Jackson

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    Freie Universität Berlin, Universitätsbibliothek
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    Source: Philologische Bibliothek, FU Berlin
    Contributor: Costello, Brannon (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9781617030185
    RVK Categories: HU 1540
    Subjects: Comic books, strips, etc; Race in literature; Ethnizität <Motiv>; Comic; USA <Motiv>
    Scope: XVI, 342 S., Ill.
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    Includes bibliographical references and index
  8. Conversations with Michael Chabon
    Contributor: Chabon, Michael; Costello, Brannon (Publisher)
    Published: 2015
    Publisher:  University Press of Mississippi, Jackson

    "Since the publication of his first novel, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, launched him to fame, Michael Chabon has become one of contemporary literature's most acclaimed novelists by pursuing his singular vision across all boundaries of genre and... more

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    "Since the publication of his first novel, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, launched him to fame, Michael Chabon has become one of contemporary literature's most acclaimed novelists by pursuing his singular vision across all boundaries of genre and medium. A firm believer that reading even the most challenging literature should be a fundamentally pleasurable experience, Chabon has produced an astonishingly diverse body of work that includes detective novels, weird tales of horror, alternative history science fiction, and rollicking chronichles of swashbuckling adventure alongside tender coming-of-age stories, sprawling social novels, and narratives of intense introspection. Uniting them all is Chabon's utterly distinct prose style...exuberant and graceful, sometimes ironic but never cynical. His work has earned accolades ranging from the Pulitzer Prize to Hugo and Nebula Awards. Conversations with Michael Chabon collects eighteen revealing interviews with the renowned author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, The Yiddish Policeman's Union, and other much-admired works. Spanning nearly twenty years and drawn from science fiction fan magazines and literary journals alike, these interviews shed new light on the central concerns of Chabon's fiction. These interviews are essential reading for anyone seeking a better understanding of the life and work of an author who has been instrumental in defining the landscape of contemporary American fiction"...

     
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  9. Plantation airs
    racial paternalism and the transformations of class in southern fiction, 1945-1971
    Author: Costello, Brannon
    Published: 2007
    Publisher:  Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge ; EBSCO Industries, Inc., Birmingham, AL, USA

    In Plantation Airs, Brannon Costello argues persuasively for new attention to the often neglected issue of class in southern literary studies. Focusing on the relationship between racial paternalism and social class in American novels written after... more

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    In Plantation Airs, Brannon Costello argues persuasively for new attention to the often neglected issue of class in southern literary studies. Focusing on the relationship between racial paternalism and social class in American novels written after World War II, Costello asserts that well into the twentieth century, attitudes and behaviors associated with an idealized version of agrarian antebellum aristocracy--especially, those of racial paternalism--were believed to be essential for white southerners. The wealthy employed them to validate their identities as "aristocrats," while less.

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780807135242; 0807135240; 9780807144923; 0807144924
    RVK Categories: HU 1691
    Series: Southern literary studies
    Subjects: Literatur; Paternalismus <Motiv>; Ethnische Beziehungen <Motiv>; Soziale Klasse <Motiv>
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 203 pages)
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    Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-196) and index
  10. Plantation airs
    racial paternalism and the transformations of class in southern fiction, 1945-1971
    Author: Costello, Brannon
    Published: 2008
    Publisher:  Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge

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    Language: English
    Media type: Book
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    ISBN: 9780807132708
    RVK Categories: HU 1691
    Series: Southern literary studies
    Subjects: American fiction; Paternalism in literature; Race relations in literature; Social classes in literature; Literature and society; American fiction; Race in literature; Paternalism; Poor in literature
    Scope: X, 203 S.
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    Includes bibliographical references and index
  11. Comics and the U.S. South
    Contributor: Costello, Brannon; Whitted, Qiana J.
    Published: 2012
    Publisher:  University Press of Mississippi, Jackson, [Miss.] ; Oxford University Press, Oxford

    A wide-ranging assessment of how life and culture in the United States South is represented in serial comics, graphic novels, newspaper comic strips, and webcomics. Diverting the lens of comics studies from the skyscrapers of Superman's Metropolis or... more

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    A wide-ranging assessment of how life and culture in the United States South is represented in serial comics, graphic novels, newspaper comic strips, and webcomics. Diverting the lens of comics studies from the skyscrapers of Superman's Metropolis or Chris Ware's Chicago to the swamps, back roads, small towns, and cities of the U.S. South, it critically examines the pulp genres associated with mainstream comic books alongside independent and alternative comics.

     
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    Contributor: Costello, Brannon; Whitted, Qiana J.
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781621032212
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    RVK Categories: LC 84610
    Subjects: Comic; USA <Motiv>; Ethnizität <Motiv>; Comic books, strips, etc; Race in literature
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 342 p.), Ill.
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    Includes bibliographical references and index
  12. Plantation airs
    racial paternalism and the transformations of class in southern fiction, 1945 - 1971
    Author: Costello, Brannon
    Published: c 2007
    Publisher:  Louisiana State Univ. Press, Baton Rouge, La

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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
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    ISBN: 0807132705; 9780807132708
    RVK Categories: HU 1691
    Series: Southern literary studies
    Subjects: American fiction; Paternalism in literature; Race relations in literature; Social classes in literature; Literature and society; American fiction; Race in literature; Paternalism; Poor in literature
    Scope: X, 203 S, 23 cm
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    Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-196) and index
  13. Plantation airs
    racial paternalism and the transformations of class in southern fiction, 1945 - 1971
    Author: Costello, Brannon
    Published: 2007
    Publisher:  Louisiana State Univ. Press, Baton Rouge

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  14. Comics and the U
    Author: Costello, Brannon
    Published: 2011
    Publisher:  University Press of Mississippi, Jackson

    Comics and the U.S. South offers a wide-ranging and long overdue assessment of how life and culture in the United States South is represented in serial comics, graphic novels, newspaper comic strips, and webcomics. Diverting the lens of comics... more

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    Comics and the U.S. South offers a wide-ranging and long overdue assessment of how life and culture in the United States South is represented in serial comics, graphic novels, newspaper comic strips, and webcomics. Diverting the lens of comics studies from the skyscrapers of Superman's Metropolis or Chris Ware's Chicago to the swamps, back roads, small towns, and cities of the U.S. South, this collection critically examines the pulp genres associated with mainstream comic books alongside independent and alternative comics. Some essays seek to discover what Captain America can reveal about sout...

     
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    Contributor: Whitted, Qiana J.
    Language: English
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    ISBN: 9781617030185; 9781617030192 (Sekundärausgabe)
    RVK Categories: LC 84610
    Subjects: Comic; USA <Motiv>; Ethnizität <Motiv>
    Scope: 359 p.
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  15. Plantation airs
    racial paternalism and the transformations of class in southern fiction, 1945-1971
    Author: Costello, Brannon
    Published: ©2007
    Publisher:  Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge

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    ISBN: 0807135240; 0807144924; 9780807135242; 9780807144923
    Series: Southern literary studies
    Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General; Roman américain / États-Unis (sud) / Histoire et critique; Race / Dans la littérature; Relations interethniques / Dans la littérature; Paternalisme / États-Unis (sud) / Histoire; American fiction; Paternalism in literature; Race relations in literature; Social classes in literature; Literature and society; American fiction; Race in literature; Paternalism; Poor in literature; Soziale Klasse <Motiv>; Paternalismus <Motiv>; Ethnische Beziehungen <Motiv>; Literatur
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    Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-196) and index

    Acknowledgments; Introduction THE PROBLEM OF FLEM SNOPES'S HAT Southern History, Racial Paternalism, and Class; 1 PATERNALISM, PROGRESS, AND "PET NEGROES" Zora Neale Hurston's Seraph on the Suwanee; 2 PLAYING LADY AND IMITATING ARISTOCRATS Race, Class, and Money in Eudora Welty's Delta Wedding and The Ponder Heart; 3 STOPPING ON A DIME Race, Class, and the "White Economy of Material Waste" in William Faulkner's The Mansion and The Reivers; 4 MECHANICS AND MULATTOES Class, Work, and Race in Ernest Gaines's Of Love and Dustand "Bloodline."

    In Plantation Airs, Brannon Costello argues persuasively for new attention to the often neglected issue of class in southern literary studies. Focusing on the relationship between racial paternalism and social class in American novels written after World War II, Costello asserts that well into the twentieth century, attitudes and behaviors associated with an idealized version of agrarian antebellum aristocracy--especially, those of racial paternalism--were believed to be essential for white southerners. The wealthy employed them to validate their identities as "aristocrats," while less
  16. Plantation airs
    racial paternalism and the transformations of class in southern fiction, 1945 - 1971
    Author: Costello, Brannon
    Published: 2007
    Publisher:  Louisiana State Univ. Press, Baton Rouge

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  17. Plantation airs
    racial paternalism and the transformations of class in southern fiction, 1945 - 1971
    Author: Costello, Brannon
    Published: c 2007
    Publisher:  Louisiana State Univ. Press, Baton Rouge, La

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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Language: English
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    ISBN: 0807132705; 9780807132708
    RVK Categories: HU 1691
    Series: Southern literary studies
    Subjects: American fiction; Paternalism in literature; Race relations in literature; Social classes in literature; Literature and society; American fiction; Race in literature; Paternalism; Poor in literature
    Scope: X, 203 S, 23 cm
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    Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-196) and index
  18. Plantation Airs
    Racial Paternalism and the Transformations of Class in Southern Fiction, 1945--1971
    Author: Costello, Brannon
    Published: 2007; ©2007
    Publisher:  LSU Press, Baton Rouge

    In Plantation Airs, Brannon Costello argues persuasively for new attention to the often neglected issue of class in southern literary studies. Focusing on the relationship between racial paternalism and social class in American novels written after... more

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    In Plantation Airs, Brannon Costello argues persuasively for new attention to the often neglected issue of class in southern literary studies. Focusing on the relationship between racial paternalism and social class in American novels written after World War II, Costello asserts that well into the twentieth century, attitudes and behaviors associated with an idealized version of agrarian antebellum aristocracy-especially, those of racial paternalism-were believed to be essential for white southerners. The wealthy employed them to validate their identities as "aristocrats," while less-affluent whites used them to separate themselves from "white trash" in the social hierarchy. Even those who were not legitimate heirs of plantation-owning families found that "putting on airs" associated with the legacy of the plantation could align them with the forces of power and privilege and offer them a measure of authority in the public arena that they might otherwise lack. Fiction by Zora Neale Hurston, Eudora Welty, William Faulkner, Ernest Gaines, Walker Percy, and others reveals, however, that the racial paternalism central to class formation and mobility in the South was unraveling in the years after World War II, when the civil rights movement and the South's increasing industrialization dramatically altered southern life. Costello demonstrates that these writers were keenly aware of the ways in which the changes sweeping the South complicated the deeply embedded structures that governed the relationship between race and class. He further contends that the collapse of racial paternalism as a means of organizing class lies at the heart of their most important works-including Hurston's Seraph on the Suwanee and her essay "The 'Pet Negro' System," Welty's Delta Wedding and The Ponder Heart, Faulkner's The Mansion and The Reivers, Gaines's Of Love and Dust Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: THE PROBLEM OF FLEM SNOPES'S HAT: Southern History, Racial Paternalism, and Class -- 1 PATERNALISM, PROGRESS, AND "PET NEGROES": Zora Neale Hurston's Seraph on the Suwanee -- 2 PLAYING LADY AND IMITATING ARISTOCRATS: Race, Class, and Money in Eudora Welty's Delta Wedding and The Ponder Heart -- 3 STOPPING ON A DIME: Race, Class, and the "White Economy of Material Waste" in William Faulkner's The Mansion and The Reivers -- 4 MECHANICS AND MULATTOES: Class, Work, and Race in Ernest Gaines's Of Love and Dust and "Bloodline" -- 5 "SUPER-NEGROES" AND HYBRID ARISTOCRATS: Race and Class in Walker Percy's The Last Gentleman and Love in the Ruins -- Conclusion: FROM "PET NEGRO" TO "MAGIC NEGRO": Hyperreal Paternalism -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.

     
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    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780807135242
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series: Southern Literary Studies
    Subjects: American fiction -- Southern States -- History and criticism; Paternalism in literature; Race relations in literature; Social classes in literature; Literature and society -- Southern States; American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Race in literature
    Scope: 1 online resource (216 pages)
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  19. Poor White Trash, Great White Hope: Race, Class, and the (De)Construction of Whiteness in Lewis Nordan's Wolf Whistle
    Author: Costello, Brannon
    Published: 2004

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    Source: Online Contents Comparative Literature
    Media type: Article (journal)
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    Parent title: Critique; Philadelphia, PA : Taylor & Francis Group, 1956-; Band 45, Heft 2 (2004), Seite 207; 25 cm