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Автор: Butler Jack
Название: Jujitsu for Christ
ISBN: 9781617037382
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Модернистская и современная художественная литература

ISBN-10: 1617037389
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 208
Вес: 0.34 кг.
Дата издания: 30.01.2013
Серия: Banner books series
Язык: English
Иллюстрации: Black & white illustrations
Размер: 229 x 152 x 13
Читательская аудитория: Professional and scholarly
Ключевые слова: Fiction & related items,Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Поставляется из: Англии
Описание: Jack Butlers Jujitsu for Christ--originally published in 1986--follows the adventures of Roger Wing, a white born-again Christian and karate instructor who opens a martial arts studio in downtown Jackson, Mississippi, during the tensest years of the Civil Rights era. Ambivalent about his religion and his region, he befriends the Gandys, an African-American family--parents A. L. and Snower Mae, teenaged son T. J., daughter Eleanor Roosevelt, and youngest son Marcus--who has moved to Jackson from the Delta in hopes of greater opportunity for their children.As the political heat rises, Roger and the Gandys find their lives intersecting in unexpected ways. Their often-hilarious interactions are told against the backdrop of Mississippis racial trauma--Governor Ross Barnetts I Love Mississippi speech at the 1962 Ole Miss-Kentucky football game in Jackson; the riots at the University of Mississippi over James Merediths admission; the fieldwork of Medgar Evers, the NAACP, and various activist organizations; and the lingering aura of Emmett Tills lynching.Drawing not only on William Faulkners gothic-modernist Yoknapatawpha County but also on Edgar Rice Burroughss high-adventure Martian pulps, Jujitsu for Christ powerfully illuminates vexed questions of racial identity and American history, revealing complexities and subtleties too often overlooked. It is a remarkable novel about the civil rights era, and how our memories of that era continue to shape our political landscape and to resonate in contemporary conversations about southern identity. But, mostly, its very funny, in a mode thats experimental, playful, sexy, and disturbing all at once.Butler offers a new foreword to the novel. Brannon Costello, a scholar of contemporary southern literature and fan of Butlers work, writes an afterword that situates the novel in its historical context and in the southern literary canon.

Jujitsu for Christ, Butler Jack