The segregated town in mid-century southern fiction

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The segregated town in mid-century southern fiction

This thesis examines how southern novelists at mid-century used the fictional small town to critique racial segregation. Depictions of segregated towns across a selection of representative fictions share a typology of people and institutions – what I term offices – that combine to make these towns s...

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Main Author:	Lennon, Gavan
Format:	Thesis (University of Nottingham only)
Language:	English
Published:	2016
Subjects:	South Southern Studies Fiction Segregation Race Faulkner McCullers American Fiction.
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/33116/

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