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Race And Technology In Southern Literature, Civil War To Civil Rights, Kaitlyn Elizabeth Smith
Race And Technology In Southern Literature, Civil War To Civil Rights, Kaitlyn Elizabeth Smith
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This dissertation considers the intersection of technology and race in the literature of the American South from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Though narratives about technology in American literature often promise democracy, equality, improvement, and progress, the role of technology in southern literature is more complex and ambivalent. Literature from and about the South from the Civil War to the civil rights era, by Black and white southern authors like Charles Chesnutt, Zora Neale Hurston, William Faulkner, and Eudora Welty reveals technology’s ability to uphold and naturalize southern white supremacy, but also to subvert it. Southern literature traces a pattern …