Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-312) and index.
Contents
Southern women writers : a confederacy of water moccasins -- Dynamiting the rails : desegregating southern literary studies -- "And every baby ... was floating round in the water, drowned" : throwaway bodies in southern fiction -- Race and the cloud of unknowing -- Beyond the hummingbird : southern gargantuas -- Politics in the kitchen : Roosevelt, McCullers, and surrealist history -- White objects, black ownership : object politics in southern fiction -- Body as testimony -- Studying the wafflehouse chain, or dirt as desire in Their eyes were watching God.
