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The world is our home : society and culture in contemporary Southern writing /
Since the early 1970s southern fiction has been increasingly attentive to social issues, including the continuing struggles for racial justice and gender equality, the loss of a sense of social community, and the decline of a coherent regional identity. The essays in The World Is Our Home focus on w...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lexington :
University Press of Kentucky,
[2000]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The world is our home : an introduction / Jeffrey J. Folks and Nancy Summers Folks
- 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
- The 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
- "The 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
- The 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.