101 Hopelessly Hilarious Jokes by Lisa Eisenberg

101 Hopelessly Hilarious Jokes by Lisa Eisenberg

If the nation as a whole during the 1940s was halfway between the Great Depression of the 1930s and the postwar prosperity of the 1950s, the South found itself struggling through an additional transition, one bound up in an often violent reworking of its own sense of history and regional identity. Examining the changing nature of racial politics in the 1940s, McKay Jenkins measures its impact on white Southern literature, history, and culture.

Jenkins focuses on four white Southern writers--W. J. Cash, William Alexander Percy, Lillian Smith, and Carson McCullers--to show how they constructed images of race and race relations within works that professed to have little, if anything, to do with race. Sexual isolation further complicated these authors' struggles with issues of identity and repression, he argues, allowing them to occupy a space between the privilege of whiteness and the alienation of blackness. Although their views on race varied tremendously, these Southern writers' uneasy relationship with their own dominant racial group belies the idea that whiteness was an unchallenged, monolithic racial identity in the region.

Lisa Eisenberg lives in Ithaca, New York.

Elwood H. Smith lives in Rhinebeck, New York.

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ISBN 13	9780590436366
ISBN 10	0590436368
Title	101 Hopelessly Hilarious Jokes
Author	Lisa Eisenberg
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Scholastic Paperbacks
Year published	1990-12-31
Number of pages	96
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