Illustration from The Clansman. The caption reads "'Take dat f'um yo' equal---'"
The Clansman is a book and play, part of a trilogy by Thomas F. Dixon, Jr.. It was influential in providing the mythology and ideology of the second Ku Klux Klan, after being filtered through a retelling in the movie Birth of a Nation. Thomas F. Dixon, Jr. ... Members of the second Ku Klux Klan at a rally during the 1920s. ... The Birth of a Nation is a controversial silent film directed by D.W. Griffith, based on the play The Clansmen and the book The Leopards Spots, both by Thomas Dixon. ...
This is a story that gives the reader an opportunity to better understand the complex factors that would follow the Civil war and the base pychologies that would play a role in shaping the 'vibrational nature' of post Reconstruction time era.
The Clansman is significant because of its role in extending (and in some cases clarifying) the dominant motivic themes that would come become axioms for the new resurrected southern identity (and mythos).
The Clansman novel can also be viewed as a consistent structure that encapsulates a 'docu-drama' fantasy state that projects a vision that has both political as well as aesthetic dimensions.
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