Description:
Provides fresh insights on the intersection of race and class in black fiction from the 1880s to 1900s
Review Quotes: "Encapsulates debates about anxiety's role in literary production and its status in critical methodology . . . [as it] delineates the great pains Frances E. W. Harper, Sutton Griggs, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Pauline Hopkins, and Charles Chesnutt took to describe class divisions within black communities. . . . Beyond representing class and its attendance anxieties, a picture of contestation over the very meaning of class emerges in Dividing Lines, as Williams shows each author prescribing a different term around which she or he believes social classes ought to be organized."
--American Literature