TY - GEN T1 - Cross-racial class protest in antebellum American literature A1 - Helwig, Timothy LA - English PP - Amherst PB - University of Massachusetts Press YR - 2020 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_on1176276499 AB - "Historians have long claimed that the antebellum white working class viewed blacks, both free and slave, not as allies but enemies. While it is true that racial and ethnic strife among northern workers prevented an effective labor movement from materializing in America prior to the Civil War, Cross-Racial Class Protest in Antebellum American Literature demonstrates that a considerable subset of white and black writers were able to imagine cross-racial solidarity in the sensation novels and serial fiction, slave narratives, autobiographies, speeches, and newspaper editorials that they penned. Timothy Helwig analyzes the shared strategies of class protest in popular and canonical texts from a range of antebellum white and black American authors, including George Lippard, Ned Buntline, Harry Hazel, Frederick Douglass, William Wells Brown, and Frank J. Webb. This pathbreaking study offers original perspectives on racial representations in antebellum American print culture and provides a new understanding of black and white authors' strivings for socioeconomic justice across racial lines in the years leading up to the Civil War"-- OP - 217 CN - PS217.W66 H37 2020eb SN - 9781613767429 SN - 1613767420 SN - 9781625344960 SN - 1625344961 SN - 9781625344977 SN - 162534497X KW - Universidad Sergio Arboleda KW - American literature : 19th century : History and criticism. KW - Working class in literature. KW - Social classes in literature. KW - Race relations in literature. KW - African Americans in literature. KW - Working class writings, American : History and criticism. KW - Littérature américaine : 19e siècle : Histoire et critique. KW - Travailleurs dans la littérature. KW - Classes sociales dans la littérature. KW - Relations raciales dans la littérature. KW - Noirs américains dans la littérature. KW - Écrits d'ouvriers américains : Histoire et critique. KW - LITERARY CRITICISM : General. KW - African Americans in literature KW - American literature KW - Race relations in literature KW - Social classes in literature KW - Working class in literature KW - Working class writings, American KW - Arbeiter : Motiv KW - Arbeiterliteratur KW - Ethnische Beziehungen : Motiv KW - Literatur KW - Schwarze KW - Schwarze : Motiv KW - Soziale Klasse : Motiv KW - 1800-1899 KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc. ER -