{"id":55852,"date":"2018-03-08T00:12:22","date_gmt":"2018-03-08T00:12:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=55852"},"modified":"2018-03-08T00:14:45","modified_gmt":"2018-03-08T00:14:45","slug":"multicultural-cities-in-frank-yerby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=55852","title":{"rendered":"Multicultural Cities in Frank Yerby"},"content":{"rendered":"

Multicultural Cities in Frank Yerby<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Interminable Rambling<\/a>
\n2018-03-16<\/p>\n

Matthew Teutsch<\/strong><\/a>, Instructor
\nDepartment of English
\nAuburn University, Auburn, Alabama<\/em><\/p>\n

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Throughout his oeuvre, Frank Yerby<\/a> works to deconstruct myths of the Old South and historical misinformation. Along with these goals, he also dismantles the dichotomy of Black and White; instead, he populates his works with individuals and scenes that defy a simplistic characterization. In this manner, Yerby shows that race is not a biological fact; rather, it is a social construct. One of the key ways that Yerby accomplishes this, especially in regard to the commingling of individuals, is through his descriptions of cities and the multitude of different people that populate the space. Today, I want to look at a couple of scenes where he does this from his first novel The Foxes of Harrow<\/em> (1946) and his seventh novel The Saracen Blade<\/em> (1952). I chose these two texts because the first takes place in antebellum<\/a> New Orleans<\/a> and the second occurs in thirteenth century Italy. Both, though, comment on issues of class and race during the mid-twentieth century.<\/p>\n

Walking through the Vieux Carre<\/em><\/a> to catch a glimpse of the Marquis de Lafayette<\/a> in The Foxes of Harrow<\/em>, Andre LeBlanc gives Stephen Fox an education in the rules, customs, and racial stratification of New Orleans, a stratification that does not fall easily into the dichotomy of Black and White…<\/p>\n

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Throughout his oeuvre, Frank Yerby works to deconstruct myths of the Old South and historical misinformation. Along with these goals, he also dismantles the dichotomy of Black and White; instead, he populates his works with individuals and scenes that defy a simplistic characterization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1196,369,8,20],"tags":[28124,26543,26542,1438],"class_list":["post-55852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-literary-criticism","category-louisiana","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-frank-yerby","tag-interminable-rambling","tag-matthew-teutsch","tag-new-orleans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55852"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55854,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55852\/revisions\/55854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}