Living Jim Crow: The Segregated Town in Mid-Century Southern Fiction

Explores how novelists of the mid—century US South invented small towns to aesthetically undermine racial segregation

Investigates the role of writing in the civil right movementExplores neglected writersUncovers new readings of canonical textsModels a new form of critical reading based on close textual analysisInterrogates the relationship between literary production and social protestAnalysing the ubiquity of the small town in fiction of the mid—century US South, Living Jim Crow is the fir...