Scary Mason-Dixon Line: African American Writers and the South by Harris, Trudier
Scary Mason-Dixon Line: African American Writers and the South by Harris, Trudier

Scary Mason-Dixon Line: African American Writers and the South

New Yorker James Baldwin once declared that a black man can look at a map of the...
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Scary Mason-Dixon Line: African American Writers and the South by Harris, Trudier

Scary Mason-Dixon Line: African American Writers and the South

$84.75
Scary Mason-Dixon Line: African American Writers and the South by Harris, Trudier

Scary Mason-Dixon Line: African American Writers and the South

$84.75
Author: Trudier Harris
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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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.

Harris considers native-born black southerners Raymond Andrews, Ernest J. Gaines, Edward P. Jones, Tayari Jones, Yusef Komunyakaa, Randall Kenan, and Phyllis Alesia Perry, and nonsouthern writers James Baldwin, Sherley Anne Williams, and Octavia E. Butler. The works Harris examines date from Baldwin's Blues for Mr. Charlie (1964) to Edward P. Jones's The Known World (2003). By including Komunyakaa's poems and Baldwin's play, as well as male and female authors, Harris demonstrates that the writers' preoccupation with the South cuts across lines of genre and gender.

Whether their writings focus on slavery, migration from the South to the North, or violence on southern soil, and whether they celebrate the triumph of black southern heritage over repression or castigate the South for its treatment of blacks, these authors cannot escape the call of the South. Indeed, Harris asserts that creative engagement with the South represents a defining characteristic of African American writing.

A singular work by one of the foremost literary scholars writing today, The Scary Mason-Dixon Line superbly demonstrates how history and memory continue to figure powerfully in African American literary creativity.

Author: Trudier Harris
Publisher: LSU Press
Published: 02/05/2013
Pages: 262
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780807152300

About the Author
The author or editor of numerous books, Trudier Harris has taught African American and American literature, as well as folklore, for more than three decades. She is currently J. Carlyle Sitterson Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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