The Scary Mason-Dixon Line: African American Writers and the South - Southern Literary Studies - Trudier Harris - Books - Louisiana State University Press - 9780807152300 - February 5, 2013
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The Scary Mason-Dixon Line: African American Writers and the South - Southern Literary Studies Reprint edition

New Yorker James Baldwin once declared that a black man can look at a map of the United States, contemplate the area south of the Mason-Dixon Line, and thus scare himself to death. In The Scary Mason-Dixon Line, renowned literary scholar Trudier Harris explores why black writers, whether born in Mississippi, New York, or elsewhere, have consistently both loved and hated the South. Harris explains that for these authors the South represents not so much a place or even a culture as a rite of passage. Not one of them can consider himself or herself a true African American writer without confronting the idea of the South in a decisive way.


262 pages

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released February 5, 2013
ISBN13 9780807152300
Publishers Louisiana State University Press
Pages 262
Dimensions 140 × 210 × 20 mm   ·   362 g
Language English  

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