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Dirt and desire : reconstructing southern women's writing, 1930-1990 /
The story of southern writing--the Dixie Limited, if you will--runs along an iron path: an official narrative of a literature about community, about place and the past, about miscegenation, white patriarchy, and the epic of race. Patricia Yaeger dynamites the rails, providing an entirely new set of...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
©2000.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | The story of southern writing--the Dixie Limited, if you will--runs along an iron path: an official narrative of a literature about community, about place and the past, about miscegenation, white patriarchy, and the epic of race. Patricia Yaeger dynamites the rails, providing an entirely new set of categories through which to understand southern literature and culture. For Yaeger, works by black and white southern women writers reveal a shared obsession with monstrosity and the grotesque and with the strange zones of contact between black and white, such as the daily trauma of underpaid labor and. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xvii, 324 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-312) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780226944920 0226944921 9780226944906 0226944905 9780226944913 0226944913 1282070290 9781282070295 9786612070297 6612070293 |