Peculiar Whiteness : racial anxiety and poor Whites in Southern literature, 1900-1965 /

"Peculiar Whiteness: Racial Anxiety and Poor Whites in Southern Literature, 1900-1965 argues for deeper consideration of the complexities surrounding the disparate treatment of poor whites throughout southern literature and attests to how broad such experiences have been. While the history of p...

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Main Author: Mellette, Justin (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2021]
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505 0 |a Introduction -- Tom and friends: Thomas Dixon, white supremacy, and poor whites of the Lost Cause -- "It ain't hardly worth the trouble to go on living": the reaction to abject poverty in Erskine Caldwell -- "Crashing to bits": autobiographical recreations of the South -- "It aint nothing but jest another Snopes": boundaries of whiteness in Yoknapatawpha -- Maimed souls: O'Connor, disability, and the future of white trash 
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