The South In History And Literature
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Author | : Harilaos Stecopoulos |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 469 |
Release | : 2021-05-20 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1108586511 |
A History of the Literature of the U.S. South provides scholars with a dynamic and heterogeneous examination of southern writing from John Smith to Natasha Trethewey. Eschewing a master narrative limited to predictable authors and titles, the anthology adopts a variegated approach that emphasizes the cultural and political tensions crucial to the making of this regional literature. Certain chapters focus on major white writers (e.g., Thomas Jefferson, William Faulkner, the Agrarians, Cormac McCarthy), but a substantial portion of the work foregrounds the achievements of African American writers like Frederick Douglass, Zora Neale Hurston, and Sarah Wright to address the multiracial and transnational dimensions of this literary formation. Theoretically informed and historically aware, the volume's contributors collectively demonstrate how southern literature constitutes an aesthetic, cultural and political field that richly repays examination from a variety of critical perspectives.
Author | : Carolyn Perry |
Publisher | : LSU Press |
Total Pages | : 724 |
Release | : 2002-03-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780807127537 |
Many of America’s foremost, and most beloved, authors are also southern and female: Mary Chesnut, Kate Chopin, Ellen Glasgow, Zora Neale Hurston, Eudora Welty, Harper Lee, Maya Angelou, Anne Tyler, Alice Walker, and Lee Smith, to name several. Designating a writer as “southern” if her work reflects the region’s grip on her life, Carolyn Perry and Mary Louise Weaks have produced an invaluable guide to the richly diverse and enduring tradition of southern women’s literature. Their comprehensive history—the first of its kind in a relatively young field—extends from the pioneer woman to the career woman, embracing black and white, poor and privileged, urban and Appalachian perspectives and experiences. The History of Southern Women’s Literature allows readers both to explore individual authors and to follow the developing arc of various genres across time. Conduct books and slave narratives; Civil War diaries and letters; the antebellum, postbellum, and modern novel; autobiography and memoirs; poetry; magazine and newspaper writing—these and more receive close attention. Over seventy contributors are represented here, and their essays discuss a wealth of women’s issues from four centuries: race, urbanization, and feminism; the myth of southern womanhood; preset images and assigned social roles—from the belle to the mammy—and real life behind the facade of meeting others’ expectations; poverty and the labor movement; responses to Uncle Tom’s Cabin and the influence of Gone with the Wind. The history of southern women’s literature tells, ultimately, the story of the search for freedom within an “insidious tradition,” to quote Ellen Glasgow. This teeming volume validates the deep contributions and pleasures of an impressive body of writing and marks a major achievement in women’s and literary studies.
Author | : Lothar Hönnighausen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 472 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : American fiction |
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Author | : Mildred Lewis Rutherford |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 918 |
Release | : 1906 |
Genre | : American literature |
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Author | : Mark V. Tushnet |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 444 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : |
Tying together legal, historical, social, political and literary strands to show how the law itself was implicated in the persistence of slavery, this work sheds new light on slavery and Southern history, as it probes the conscience of a troubled jurist incapable of fully transcending his times.
Author | : Nell Irvin Painter |
Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780807853603 |
This work reaches across the colour line to examine how race, gender, class and individual subjectivity shaped the lives of black and white women in the 19th- and 20th-century American South.
Author | : Mildred L. Rutherford |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780849010934 |
Author | : Harilaos Stecopoulos |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 469 |
Release | : 2021-05-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108491677 |
Drawing on diverse theories and methods, this collective volume emphasizes the multi-ethnic and transnational aspects of southern literature over a four hundred-year period.
Author | : Richard Gray |
Publisher | : LSU Press |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780807122174 |
In this major reconsideration of a regional consciousness, Richard Gray explores how generations of southerners have been engaged in "writing the South", in reinventing their place even as they describe it. "Humane and learned, informative and analytical, WRITING THE SOUTH is a most impressive addition to cultural inquiry".--THE LISTENER. 12 photos.
Author | : Jennifer Rae Greeson |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 369 |
Release | : 2010-10-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0674024281 |
This work tracks the nation/South juxtaposition in US literature from the founding to the turn of the 20th century, through genres including travel writing, gothic and romance novels, geography textbooks, transcendentalist prose, and abolitionist address.