Discourse of Race and Southern Literature, 1890-1940

The author: Andreas Mueller-Hartmann is a lecturer at the Institute for teaching English as a foreign language (TEFL) at Giessen University, Germany. He has worked as a secondary school teacher of English, French and German in various schools in Germany, France, and the USA. He holds an M.A. in Southern Studies from the University of Mississippi, USA, and a Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of Osnabrueck, Germany.

• Contents: The racist Southern white discourse around the turn of the century and first attempts at its subversion, 1890-1914 - The 'Harlem Renaissance' and the 'Southern Renaissance': Two attempts at revising traditional discourses, 1918-1930 - The beginning of the Depression: Southern white writers probe the racist discourse of the Agrarians, 1930-1935 - The emerging voice of resistance among Southern black writers during the second half of the Depression, 1935-1940.