{"product_id":"jim-crow-literature-and-the-legacy-of-sutton-e-griggs-paperback","title":"Jim Crow, Literature, and the Legacy of Sutton E. Griggs - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eTess Chakkalakal\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eKenneth W. Warren\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eCaroline Levander\u003c\/b\u003e (Contribution by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eImperium in Imperio\u003c\/i\u003e (1899) was the first black novel to countenance openly the possibility of organized black violence against Jim Crow segregation. Its author, a Baptist minister and newspaper editor from Texas, Sutton E. Griggs (1872-1933), would go on to publish four more novels; establish his own publishing company, one of the first secular publishing houses owned and operated by an African American in the United States; and help to found the American Baptist Theological Seminary in Tennessee. Alongside W. E. B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington, Griggs was a key political and literary voice for black education and political rights and against Jim Crow. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eJim Crow, Literature, and the Legacy of Sutton E. Griggs\u003c\/i\u003e examines the wide scope of Griggs's influence on African American literature and politics at the turn of the twentieth century. Contributors engage Griggs's five novels and his numerous works of nonfiction, as well as his publishing and religious careers. By taking up Griggs's work, these essays open up a new historical perspective on African American literature and the terms that continue to shape American political thought and culture.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTess Chakkalakal (Editor) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e TESS CHAKKALAKAL is an associate professor of Africana studies and English at Bowdoin College. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eNovel Bondage: Slavery, Marriage, and Freedom in Nineteenth-Century America\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eKenneth W. Warren (Editor) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e KENNETH W. WARREN is the Fairfax M. Cone Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of English at the University of Chicago. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eWhat Was African American Literature?\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSo Black and Blue: Ralph Ellison and the Occasion of Criticism\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eBlack and White Strangers: Race and American Literary Realism\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 328\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 8.9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 15, 2013\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51757867270432,"sku":"9780820345987","price":59.87,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/a31d87b99f8131628099536f9e3c6e1c.webp?v=1780113527","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/jim-crow-literature-and-the-legacy-of-sutton-e-griggs-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}