Book contents
- Race in American Literature and Culture
- Cambridge Themes in American Literature and Culture
- Race in American Literature and Culture
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Fractured Foundations
- Part II Racial Citizenship
- Part III Contending Forces
- Chapter 7 Reconstructing Race
- Chapter 8 Out of the Silent South
- Chapter 9 Neighborliness, Race, and Nineteenth-Century Regional Fiction
- Part IV Reconfigurations
- Part V Envisioning Race
- Part VI Case Studies
- Part VII Reflections and Prospects
- Index
Chapter 9 - Neighborliness, Race, and Nineteenth-Century Regional Fiction
from Part III - Contending Forces
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 26 May 2022
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Book contents
- Race in American Literature and Culture
- Cambridge Themes in American Literature and Culture
- Race in American Literature and Culture
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Fractured Foundations
- Part II Racial Citizenship
- Part III Contending Forces
- Chapter 7 Reconstructing Race
- Chapter 8 Out of the Silent South
- Chapter 9 Neighborliness, Race, and Nineteenth-Century Regional Fiction
- Part IV Reconfigurations
- Part V Envisioning Race
- Part VI Case Studies
- Part VII Reflections and Prospects
- Index
Summary
This essay examines race and late nineteenth-century regional fiction by asking how neighborliness helps arbitrate the tension between representations of membership in local communities and larger histories of national and regional racial dispossession.
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- Race in American Literature and Culture , pp. 149 - 162Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022