Book contents
- Half title page
- The Cambridge Companion to American Civil Rights Literature
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Notes on contributors
- Chronology
- Book part
- Introduction
- 1 The Civil Rights Movement and Literature of Social Protest
- 2 The Dilemma of Narrating Jim Crow
- 3 The Black Arts Movement
- 4 Drama and Performance from Civil Rights to Black Arts
- 5 Civil Rights Movement Fiction
- 6 The White Southern Novel and the Civil Rights Movement
- 7 Civil Rights Movement Film
- 8 Civil Rights Movement Poetry
- 9 Gender, Sex, and Civil Rights
- 10 Twenty-First-Century Literature: Post-Black? Post–Civil Rights?
- Bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Companions to…
- References
Bibliography
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Book contents
- Half title page
- The Cambridge Companion to American Civil Rights Literature
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Notes on contributors
- Chronology
- Book part
- Introduction
- 1 The Civil Rights Movement and Literature of Social Protest
- 2 The Dilemma of Narrating Jim Crow
- 3 The Black Arts Movement
- 4 Drama and Performance from Civil Rights to Black Arts
- 5 Civil Rights Movement Fiction
- 6 The White Southern Novel and the Civil Rights Movement
- 7 Civil Rights Movement Film
- 8 Civil Rights Movement Poetry
- 9 Gender, Sex, and Civil Rights
- 10 Twenty-First-Century Literature: Post-Black? Post–Civil Rights?
- Bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Companions to…
- References
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