TY - BOOK ID - 103640056 TI - Civil rights in the White literary imagination PY - 2013 SN - 1617036498 1621030539 9781617036507 1617036501 9781621030539 9781617036491 9781283922340 1283922347 PB - Jackson University Press of Mississippi DB - UniCat KW - American literature KW - Civil rights in literature. KW - Race relations in literature. KW - African Americans KW - White authors KW - History and criticism. KW - Civil rights KW - History KW - English literature KW - Agrarians (Group of writers) UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:103640056 AB - The statement, ""The Civil Rights Movement changed America,"" though true, has become something of a cliché. Civil rights in the White Literary Imagination seeks to determine how, exactly, the Civil Rights Movement changed the literary possibilities of four iconic American writers: Robert Penn Warren, Norman Mailer, Eudora Welty, and William Styron. Each of these writers published significant works prior to the Brown v. Board of Education case in 1954 and the Montgomery Bus Boycott that began in December of the following year, making it possible to trace their evolution in rea ER -