| Description |
vi, 282 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Competing histories : William Styron's The confessions of Nat Turner and Sherley Ann Williams's Dessa Rose / Susan Goodman -- New narratives of southern manhood : race, masculinity, and closure in Ernest Gaines's fiction / Suzanne W. Jones -- Snake and the rosary : violence and the culture of piety in Sheila Bosworth's Slow poison / Gary M. Ciuba -- "Because God's eye never closes" : the problem of evil in Jayne Anne Phillips's Shelter / James Grove -- Gender and justice : Alice Walker and the sexual politics of civil rights / Keith Byerman -- "Trouble" in Muskhogean County : the social history of a southern community in the fiction of Raymond Andrews / Jeffrey J. Folks -- "Politics of they" : Dorothy Allison's Bastard out of Carolina as critique of class, gender, and sexual ideologies / Moira P. Baker -- Transcendence in the house of the dead : the subversive gaze of A lesson before dying / John Lowe -- Walker Percy's Lancelot Lamar : defending the hollow core / Julius Raper -- Regeneration through nonviolence : Frederick Barthelme and the west / Robert H. Brinkmeyer Jr. -- Making peace with the (m)other / Barbara Bennett -- Toward healing the split : Lee Smith's Fancy strut and Black Mountain breakdown / Linda J. Byrd -- Stories told by their survivors (and other sins of memory) : survivor guilt in Kaye Gibbons's Ellen Foster / Linda Watts -- James Lee Burke's Dave Robicheaux novels / Frank W. Shelton -- Physical hunger for the spiritual : southern religious experience in the plays of Horton Foote / Gerald C. Wood -- Richard Ford : the postmodern exile and the vanishing South / Joanna Price. |
| Subject |
American literature -- Southern States -- History and criticism.
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Literature and society -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century.
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Authors, American -- Homes and haunts -- Southern States.
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Southern States -- Intellectual life -- 1865-
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Southern States -- In literature.
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Social problems in literature.
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| Added Author |
Folks, Jeffrey J. (Jeffrey Jay), 1948-
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Folks, Nancy Summers, 1946-
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| ISBN |
0813121663 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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