Living Legacies Literary Responses to the Civil Rights Movement [Hardcover]

In this timely and dynamic collection of essays, Laura Dubek brings together a diverse group of scholars to explore the literary response to the most significant social movement of the twentieth century. Covering a wide range of genres and offering provocative readings of both familiar and lesser known texts, Living Legacies demonstrates how literature can be used not only to challenge the master narrative of the civil rights movement but also to inform and inspire the next generation of freedom fighters.

List of Figures

1 From Alabama to Tahrir Square: Martin Luther King and the Montgomery StoryComic as Civil Rights Narrative

2 Inviting Compassion and Caring Through Testimony: Participants in the Civil Rights Movement Speak for Themselves

3 Tomorrows Great Meeting Place : Collective Autobiographies of the Civil Rights Movement

4 God Decreed It So : The Rhetoric of Destiny in 1963

5 Back to Birmingham: Three Poets Remember the Sixteenth Street Church Bombing

6 Pass it On! : Legacy and the Freedom Struggle in Toni Morrisons Song of Solomon

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7 Living Proof of Something So Terrible : Pearl Cleages Bourbon at the Border and the Politics of Civil Rights History and Memory

8 A Living Theater for Human Rights: Jill Freedmans Old Newsand Visual Legacies of the 1968 Poor Peoples Campaign

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