| Description |
255 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-241) and index. |
| Contents |
Crossing the tracks of the Dixie limited: overcoming anxiety of influence and filling in the blanks -- Cross-country corpses in Faulkner, Barthelme, and McMurtry -- Miss Jane is still not in the history books: gender, race, and class discrimination in the fiction of Faulkner and Gaines -- The sterile new south: Hurston's contemporaneous deconstruction of the paradigm -- Resounding truths in Absalom Absalom! and Song of Solomon: exploring epistemology with Faulkner and Morrison -- No mere endurance here: the prevailing woman's voice in Lee Smith's Oral history -- Rape fantasies vs. rape realities: more skeletons coming out of southern closets -- Don't just sit there; do something: frustration with Faulkner from Glasgow to Gautreaux. |
| Summary |
"Using a variety of critical techniques, Margaret Donovan Bauer offers a new avenue toward understanding the literary response to southern history. Among the most important contributions of this book is its re-examination of Faulkner's white male liberal prototype, who feels powerless to effect change and relieve the oppression of African-Americans and women in the South. Viewing such a character from the point of view of the oppressed illuminates the cowardice of these privileged men, who previously received praise for their liberal consciousness or sympathy for their frustration over their impotence. Bauer also offers a thorough reading of the main body of Ernest Gaines's canon."--BOOK JACKET. |
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Faulkner, William, 1897-1962 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Faulkner, William, 1897-1962 -- Influence.
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American fiction -- Southern States -- History and criticism.
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American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Southern States -- Intellectual life -- 1865-
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Southern States -- In literature.
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| ISBN |
081302854X (alk. paper) |
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9780813028545 (alk. paper) |
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0813030773 |
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9780813030777 |
| Standard No. |
YDXCP 2210369 |
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AU@ 000026980595 |
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