Thomas Dixon, Jr. and the birth of modern America

Thomas Dixon, Jr. and the birth of modern America [electronic resource] / edited by Michele K. Gillespie and Randal L. Hall. - Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, c2006. - viii, 224 p., [6] p. of plates : ill. - Making the modern South . - Making the modern South. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Thomas Dixon: American Proteus / W. Fitzhugh Brundage -- "My books are hard reading for a Negro": Tom Dixon and his African American critics, 1905-1939 / John David Smith -- Gender and race in Dixon's religious ideology / Cynthia Lynn Lyerly -- "Ours is a century of light": Dixon's strange consistency / David Stricklin -- Thomas Dixon and the literary production of whiteness / Scott Romine -- Thomas Dixon and race melodrama / Jane M. Gaines -- The cinematic representation of race in The birth of a nation: a Black horror film / Charlene Regester -- Do movies have rights? / Louis Menand -- Epilogue: the enduring worlds of Thomas Dixon / William A. Link.


Electronic reproduction.
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2013.
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Dixon, Thomas, 1864-1946 --Criticism and interpretation.
Dixon, Thomas, 1864-1946 --Knowledge--United States.


National characteristics, American, in literature.
Race relations in literature.
Racism in motion pictures.
Racism in literature.
Race in literature.


Electronic books.

PS3507.I93 / Z87 2006eb

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