Third spaces and first places: Jack Butler's Jujitsu for Christ and hybridity in the US South.(Critical essay) From: The Mississippi Quarterly | Date: June 22, 2005| Author: Costello, Brannon | COPYRIGHT 2005 Mississippi State University. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

SET IN THE EARLY 1960S, JUJITSU FOR CHRIST(1986), THE FIRST NOVEL BY Mississippi native Jack Butler, tells the story of Roger Wing, a born-again Christian martial-arts expert who opens a studio in Jackson, Mississippi, where 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. Their sometimes tragic, sometimes comic (mis)adventures take place in a climate of growing racial unrest. T...

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