Civil Rights in the White Literary Imagination Innocence by Association【電子書籍】[ Jonathan W. Gray ]

＜p＞The statement, “The Civil Rights Movement changed America,” though true, has become something of a clich?. ＜em＞Civil Rights in the White Literary Imagination＜/em＞ seeks to determine how, exactly, the Civil Rights Movement changed the literary possibilities of four iconic American writers: Robert Penn Warren, Norman Mailer, Eudora Welty, and William Styron. Each of these writers published significant works prior to the ＜em＞Brown v. Board of Education＜/em＞ case in 1954 and the Montgomery Bus Boycott that began in December of the following year, making it possible to trace their evolution in reaction to these events. The work these writers crafted in response to the upheaval of the day, from Warren's ＜em＞Who Speaks for the Negro?＜/em＞, to Mailer's “The White Negro” to Welty's “Where Is the Voice Coming From?” to Styron's ＜em＞Confessions of Nat Turner＜/em＞, reveal much about their own feeling in the moment even as they contribute to the national conversation that centered on race and de．．．楽天市場のショップで商品詳細の続きを見る