Jones & Moody/Known World

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A 4 page essay that analyzes Edward Jones' novel of the antebellum South, The Known World, and Anne Moody autobiography, Coming of Age in Mississippi, which are very different books that are separated by roughly a hundred years of American history. However, each of these texts share the common factor in that an integral part of each narrative is that it deals with what is the "known world" of their times. Examining these texts from the standpoint of what constitutes the "known world" in each case demonstrates the way in which racism, social injustice and bigotry were engrained in American society in both the antebellum era and the pre-Civil Rights movement South of Anne Moody. No additional sources cited.