Reconstructing the World : : Southern Fictions and U.S. Imperialisms, 1898–1976 / / Harilaos Stecopoulos.
"The unending tragedy of Reconstruction," wrote W. E. B. Du Bois, "is the utter inability of the American mind to grasp its. national and worldwide implications." And yet the long shadow of Reconstruction's failure has loomed large in the American imagination, serving as a p...
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| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- 1. The Geography of Reunion: Thomas Dixon, Charles Chesnutt, and the McKinley Expansionists
- 2. Up from Empire: James Weldon Johnson, Latin America, and the Jim Crow South
- 3. "Take Your Geography and Trace It": W. E. B. DuBois and the Reconstruction of the South
- 4. "Members of the Whole World": Carson McCullers's Military Fictions
- 5. Mississippi on the Pacific: William Faulkner and Richard Wright in Postwar Asia
- Epilogue: Alice Walker and the Lost Cause
- NOTES
- INDEX