The Ku Klux Klan in American literature and films Download

Author: Alexandra Mohr
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ISBN: 3638708829

The Ku Klux Klan in American literature and films: From Thomas Dixon's "The Clansman" to contemporary KKK novels and movies

Thesis (M. Download The Ku Klux Klan in American literature and films: From Thomas Dixon's "The Clansman" to contemporary KKK novels and movies from rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared. .) aus dem Jahr 2005 im Fachbereich Amerikanistik - Literatur, Note: 1,7, Humboldt-UniversitAt zu Berlin, 39 Eintragungen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Englisch, Abstract: The Ku Klux Klan and its racist doctrine have a long history. In his work "Backfire. How the Ku Klux Klan Helped the Civil Rights Movement", David Chalmers calls the Klan as "America's only enduring political terrorist movement". The following paper will mainly focus on the presentation of the Klan in Thomas Dixon's Southern Reconstruction novel "The Clansman" and D. W. Griffith's movie "The Birth of a Nation", as well as in contemporary American literature and films. In that context, the Klan's prejudices against African Americans will be discussed - in connection Search and find a lot of education books in many category availabe for free download.