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Albion W. Tourgee (1838-1905) was a major force for social, legal,
and literary transformation in the second half of the nineteenth
century. Best known for his Reconstruction novels A Fool's Errand
(1879) and Bricks without Straw (1880), and for his key role in the
civil rights case Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), challenging
Louisiana's law segregating railroad cars, Tourgee published more
than a dozen novels and a volume of short stories, as well as
nonfiction works of history, law, and politics. This volume is the
first collection focused on Tourgee's literary work and intends to
establish his reputation as one of the great writers of fiction
about the Reconstruction era arguably the greatest for the wide
historical and geographical sweep of his novels and his ability to
work with multiple points of view. As a white novelist interested
in the rights of African Americans, Tourgee was committed to
developing not a single Black perspective but multiple Black
perspectives, sometimes even in conflict. The challenge was to do
justice to those perspectives in the larger context of the story he
wanted to tell about a multiracial America. The seventeen essays in
this volume are grouped around three large topics: race,
citizenship, and nation. The volume also includes a Preface,
Introduction, Afterword, Bibliography, and Chronology providing an
overview of his career. This collection changes the way that we
view Tourgee by highlighting his contributions as a writer and
editor and as a supporter of African American writers. Exploring
the full spectrum of his literary works and cultural engagements,
Reimagining the Republic: Race, Citizenship, and Nation in the
Literary Work of Albion Tourgee reveals a new Tourgee for our
moment of renewed interest in the literature and politics of
Reconstruction.
Albion W. Tourgee (1838-1905) was a major force for social, legal,
and literary transformation in the second half of the nineteenth
century. Best known for his Reconstruction novels A Fool's Errand
(1879) and Bricks without Straw (1880), and for his key role in the
civil rights case Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), challenging
Louisiana's law segregating railroad cars, Tourgee published more
than a dozen novels and a volume of short stories, as well as
nonfiction works of history, law, and politics. This volume is the
first collection focused on Tourgee's literary work and intends to
establish his reputation as one of the great writers of fiction
about the Reconstruction era arguably the greatest for the wide
historical and geographical sweep of his novels and his ability to
work with multiple points of view. As a white novelist interested
in the rights of African Americans, Tourgee was committed to
developing not a single Black perspective but multiple Black
perspectives, sometimes even in conflict. The challenge was to do
justice to those perspectives in the larger context of the story he
wanted to tell about a multiracial America. The seventeen essays in
this volume are grouped around three large topics: race,
citizenship, and nation. The volume also includes a Preface,
Introduction, Afterword, Bibliography, and Chronology providing an
overview of his career. This collection changes the way that we
view Tourgee by highlighting his contributions as a writer and
editor and as a supporter of African American writers. Exploring
the full spectrum of his literary works and cultural engagements,
Reimagining the Republic: Race, Citizenship, and Nation in the
Literary Work of Albion Tourgee reveals a new Tourgee for our
moment of renewed interest in the literature and politics of
Reconstruction.
A new critical edition of Sutton Griggs's
turn-of-the-twentieth-century novel, which continues to shed light
on understandings of Black politics. Sutton E. Griggs's first
novel, originally published in 1899, paints a searing picture of
the violent enforcement of disfranchisement and Jim Crow racial
segregation. Based on events of the time, including US imperial
policies, revolutionary movements, and racial protests, Imperium in
Imperio introduces the fictional Belton Piedmont and Bernard
Belgrave as "future leaders of their race" and uses these
characters to make sense of the violence that marked the dawn of
the twentieth century. Taking on contemporary battles over
separatism and integration, Griggs's novel continues to play a
crucial role in understandings of Black politics. Edited and
introduced by Tess Chakkalakal and Kenneth W. Warren, this new
critical edition offers not only an incisive biographical and
historical introduction to the novel and its author but also a
wealth of references that make the events and characters of
Griggs's Imperium in Imperio, and its aftermath, accessible to
readers today.
"Imperium in Imperio" (1899) was the first black novel to
countenance openly the possibility of organized black violence
against Jim Crow segregation. Its author, a Baptist minister and
newspaper editor from Texas, Sutton E. Griggs (1872-1933), would go
on to publish four more novels; establish his own publishing
company, one of the first secular publishing houses owned and
operated by an African American in the United States; and help to
found the American Baptist Theological Seminary in Tennessee.
Alongside W. E. B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington, Griggs was a
key political and literary voice for black education and political
rights and against Jim Crow.
"Jim Crow, Literature, and the Legacy of Sutton E. Griggs" examines
the wide scope of Griggs's influence on African American literature
and politics at the turn of the twentieth century. Contributors
engage Griggs's five novels and his numerous works of nonfiction,
as well as his publishing and religious careers. By taking up
Griggs's work, these essays open up a new historical perspective on
African American literature and the terms that continue to shape
American political thought and culture.
"Imperium in Imperio" (1899) was the first black novel to
countenance openly the possibility of organized black violence
against Jim Crow segregation. Its author, a Baptist minister and
newspaper editor from Texas, Sutton E. Griggs (1872-1933), would go
on to publish four more novels; establish his own publishing
company, one of the first secular publishing houses owned and
operated by an African American in the United States; and help to
found the American Baptist Theological Seminary in Tennessee.
Alongside W. E. B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington, Griggs was a
key political and literary voice for black education and political
rights and against Jim Crow.
"Jim Crow, Literature, and the Legacy of Sutton E. Griggs" examines
the wide scope of Griggs's influence on African American literature
and politics at the turn of the twentieth century. Contributors
engage Griggs's five novels and his numerous works of nonfiction,
as well as his publishing and religious careers. By taking up
Griggs's work, these essays open up a new historical perspective on
African American literature and the terms that continue to shape
American political thought and culture.
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