The Cambridge Companion to American Civil Rights Literature

Julie Buckner Armstrong is Professor of English at the University of South Florida, St Petersburg. She is the author of Mary Turner and the Memory of Lynching and editor of The Civil Rights Reader: American Literature from Jim Crow to Reconciliation. Armstrong has also contributed to such journals as the African American Review, Mississippi Quarterly, MELUS, Southern Quarterly, the Flannery O'Connor Review and Georgia Historical Quarterly.

1. The civil rights movement and the literature of social protest Zoe Trodd; 2. The dilemma of narrating Jim Crow Brian Norman; 3. The Black Arts movement GerShun Avilez; 4. Drama and performance from civil rights to Black Arts Nilgün Anadolu-Okur; 5. Civil rights movement fiction Julie Buckner Armstrong; 6. The white Southern novel and the civil rights movement Christopher Metress; 7. Civil rights fictional film Sharon Monteith; 8. Civil rights movement poetry Jeffrey Lamar Coleman; 9. Gender, sex, and civil rights Robert J. Patterson; 10. Twenty-first-century literature: post-black? Post-civil rights? Barbara McCaskill.