Sitting in Darkness - New South Fiction, Education, and the Rise of Jim Crow Colonialism, 1865-1920

Explores how fiction of the Reconstruction and the New South intervenes in debates over black schools, citizen-building, Jim Crow discrimination, and US foreign policy towards its territories and dependencies. The author urges a reexamination not only of the contents and formal innovations of New South literature but also its importance in US literary history.