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By Jonathan W. Gray
Publish yr note: First released January 1st 2012
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The assertion, "The Civil Rights circulation replaced America," even though real, has develop into whatever of a cliché. Civil rights within the White Literary mind's eye seeks to figure out how, precisely, the Civil Rights move replaced the literary chances of 4 iconic American writers: Robert Penn Warren, Norman Mailer, Eudora Welty, and William Styron. each one of those writers released major works sooner than the Brown v. Board of Education case in 1954 and the Montgomery Bus Boycott that all started in December of the next year,
making it attainable to track their evolution in response to those occasions. The paintings those writers crafted in accordance with the upheaval of the day, from Warren's Who Speaks for the Negro?, to Mailer's "The White Negro" to Welty's "Where Is the Voice Coming From?" to Styron's Confessions of Nat Turner, demonstrate a lot approximately their very own feeling within the second whilst they give a contribution to the nationwide dialog that established on race and democracy.
By analyzing those works heavily, grey posits the argument that those writers considerably formed discourse on civil rights because the circulation used to be happening yet did so in methods that--intentionally or not--often relied upon a proposal of the relative innocence of the South with reference to racial affairs, and on a build of African american citizens as politically and/or culturally na*ve. As those writers grappled with race and the parable of southern the Aristocracy, their paintings constructed in ways in which have been at the same time sympathetic of, and condescending to, black highbrow inspiration taking place even as.
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Whites can only “deal with the ‘Negro problem’ [after they have] learned to deal with the white man’s ‘white man’ problem . . [which] is . . to distinguish between whatever ‘de facto superiority’ he may, in fact, have and whatever notion of inherent superiority he may cherish” (431). If this is the primary stumbling block to social progress, it remains in Warren’s view primarily a liberal problem. Southerners are very aware of their de facto superiority, due to the lengths to which they have gone to defend it.
For change, for the working of the life process through history” (34). Legacy laments “the Nat Turner insurrection” because in the South, after this uprising “the possibility of criticism—criticism from the inside—was over” (35). At that point “the only function then left open to intellect in the South was apologetics for the closed society, not criticism of it; and in those apologetics there was little space for the breath of life, no recognition of the need for fluidity, growth, and change which life is” (39).
The word integration,” he declares, “does not refer . . to one thing. It refers to a shifting, shadowy mass of interfusing possibilities. It refers, in short, to the future” (415). While as recently as 1956 Warren sympathized with those southerners unable to accommodate change, he now supports this transformation. Ending segregation “will mean a great change; and change, however deeply willed, is always shocking; old stances and accommodations, like the twinge of an old wound, are part of the self, and even as we desire new life and more life, we must realize that a part of us .