''Stan' in wid de Angry-Saxon race'': Charles W. Chesnutt and the Railroad Motif "
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
''Stan' in wid de Angry-Saxon race'': Charles W. Chesnutt and the Railroad Motif "
Original language description
This contribution shows how the theme of "America in Motion" is central to the Civil Rights movements in the USA, both figuratively and concretely. In Charles Chesnutt's story "The Passing of Grandison" (1899) as well as selected essays, journal entriesand other fiction, both the Underground Railroad before emancipation and the Jim Crow laws passed in the South after Reconstruction are analyzed, satirized and critiqued. The segregation laws from the Plessy v Fergusson Supreme Court decision (1894) continued in practice until Martin Luther King and his followers desegregated public transportation in the 1950s and 1960s. The sophisticated trickster figures in Chesnutt's writing link the Underground Railroad motif to segregation criticism, all of which was essentially an issue of America in Motion.
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Classification
Type
D - Article in proceedings
CEP classification
AJ - Literature, mass media, audio-visual activities
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Project
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Continuities
V - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z jinych verejnych zdroju
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Publication year
2010
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
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Article name in the collection
America in Motion
ISBN
978-80-244-2458-3
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Number of pages
15
Pages from-to
65-80
Publisher name
Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci
Place of publication
Olomouc
Event location
Olomouc
Event date
Sep 7, 2008
Type of event by nationality
CST - Celostátní akce
UT code for WoS article
000296489500004