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Norman's reorienting anatomy of his chosen texts and his energetic defense of his conceptual and methodological underpinnings gives this study a rich blend of poise and provocation that has staying power. --John S. Wright, Journal of America History <br>

Norman has produced a valuable work of scholarship, one that will resituate the way those of us who work in African American literary and cultural studies, as well as those who work more broadly in critical race theory and historiographical studies, will think and talk about black cultural products in years to come. --Gary Edward Holcomb, Journal of Twentieth-Century Literature

By defining key figures, practices, and comparative approaches, Neo-Segregation Narratives clarifies and validates the work of scholarship on the literature of the Civil Rights Movement. --Julie Buckner Armstrong, MELUS <br>

Neo-Segregation Narratives is an expansive and inventive work of scholarship, intrepid in its declaration of a new literary tradition. . . . Norman's study leaves me reflecting on this intriguing suggestion that literature can achieve forms of 'integration' that continue to elude us in American life. --Heidi E. Bollinger, Callaloo Norman has produced a valuable work of scholarship, one that will resituate the way those of us who work in African American literary and cultural studies, as well as those who work more broadly in critical race theory and historiographical studies, will think and talk about black cultural products in years to come. --Gary Edward Holcomb, Journal of Twentieth-Century Literature Neo-Segregation Narratives is an expansive and inventive work of scholarship, intrepid in its declaration of a new literary tradition. . . . Norman's study leaves me reflecting on this intriguing suggestion that literature can achieve forms of 'integration' that continue to elude us in American life.--Heidi E. Bollinger Callaloo By defining key figures, practices, and comparative approaches, Neo-Segregation Narratives clarifies and validates the work of scholarship on the literature of the Civil Rights Movement.--Julie Buckner Armstrong MELUS Norman's reorienting anatomy of his chosen texts and his energetic defense of his conceptual and methodological underpinnings gives this study a rich blend of poise and provocation that has staying power.--John S. Wright Journal of America History Offering an original and provocative approach to the literary representation of segregation, Neo-Segregation Narratives demands that we think differently, and much more creatively, about the historical timeline of Jim Crow and the complex persistence of American racial divisions.--Eric J. Sundquist author of King's Dream: The Legacy of Martin Luther King's I Have a Dream Speech Provocative and illuminating . . . Neo-Segregation Narratives is crucial reading for anyone interested in deciphering the malleable manifestations of the color line in a postracial culture.--Elizabeth Abel University of California, Berkeley Norman's reorienting anatomy of his chosen texts and his energetic defense of his conceptual and methodological underpinnings gives this study a rich blend of poise and provocation that has staying power. --John S. Wright, Journal of America History By defining key figures, practices, and comparative approaches, Neo-Segregation Narratives clarifies and validates the work of scholarship on the literature of the Civil Rights Movement. --Julie Buckner Armstrong, MELUS Provocative and illuminating . . . Neo-Segregation Narratives is crucial reading for anyone interested in deciphering the malleable manifestations of the color line in a postracial culture. --Elizabeth Abel, University of California, Berkeley Offering an original and provocative approach to the literary representation of segregation, Neo-Segregation Narratives demands that we think differently, and much more creatively, about the historical timeline of Jim Crow and the complex persistence of American racial divisions. --Eric J. Sundquist, author of King's Dream: The Legacy of Martin Luther King's I Have a Dream Speech

Neo-Segregation Narratives is an expansive and inventive work of scholarship, intrepid in its declaration of a new literary tradition. . . . Norman's study leaves me reflecting on this intriguing suggestion that literature can achieve forms of 'integration' that continue to elude us in American life.--Heidi E. Bollinger Callaloo

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Brian Norman is an assistant professor of English and the director of African and African American studies at Loyola University Maryland. He is author of The American Protest Essay and National Belonging: Addressing Division and coeditor of Representing Segregation: Toward an Aesthetics of Living Jim Crow, and Other Forms of Racial Division.

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