{"product_id":"dividing-lines-9780472036745","title":"Dividing Lines","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne of the most extensive studies of class in 19th-century African American literature to date, \u003cem\u003eDividing Lines\u003c\/em\u003e unveils how black fiction writers represented the uneasy relationship between class differences, racial solidarity, and the quest for civil rights in black communities. The book argues that the signs of class anxiety are embedded in postbellum fiction.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Delineates the great pains Frances E. W. Harper, Sutton Griggs, PaulLaurence Dunbar, Pauline Hopkins, and Charles Chesnutt took to describeclass divisions within black communities . . . a picture of contestation overthe very meaning of class emerges in \u003cem\u003eDividing Lines\u003c\/em\u003e, as Williams showseach author prescribing a different term around which she or he believessocial classes ought to be organized.” - \u003cem\u003eAmerican Literature\u003c\/em\u003e","brand":"LUP - University of Michigan Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51037084025175,"sku":"9780472036745","price":30.71,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780472036745.jpg?v=1750934332","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/dividing-lines-9780472036745","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}