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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...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Yaeger, Patricia
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©2000.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover; Contents; Prologue; Chapter One Southern Women Writers: A Confederacy of Water Moccasins; Chapter Two Dynamiting the Rails: Desegregating Southern Literary Studies; Chapter Three "And Every Baby ... Was Floating Round in the Water, Drowned": Throwaway Bodies in Southern Fiction; Chapter Four Race and the Cloud of Unknowing; Chapter Five Beyond the Hummingbird: Southern Gargantuas; Chapter Six Politics in the Kitchen: Roosevelt, McCullers, and Surrealist History; Chapter Seven White Objects, Black Ownership: Object Politics in Southern Fiction; Chapter Eight The Body as Testimony
  • Chapter Nine Studying the Wafflehouse Chain, or Dirt as Desire in Their Eyes Were Watching GodNotes; References; Index