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Apocalypse south : judgment, cataclysm, and resistance in the regional imaginary /
"Apocalypse South rectifies the omissions in existing scholarship by interrogating the role of apocalyptic discourse in selected works of fiction by four southern writers--William Faulkner, Richard Wright, Randall Kenan, and Dorothy Allison. In doing so, it reinvigorates discussions of religion...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Columbus :
The Ohio State University Press,
[2012]
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| Colección: | Literature, religion, and postsecular studies.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "Apocalypse South rectifies the omissions in existing scholarship by interrogating the role of apocalyptic discourse in selected works of fiction by four southern writers--William Faulkner, Richard Wright, Randall Kenan, and Dorothy Allison. In doing so, it reinvigorates discussions of religion in southern literary scholarship and introduces a new element in the ongoing investigation into how regional identities function in notions of national mission and American exceptionalism. Engaging concerns of religion, race, sexuality, and community in fiction from the 1930s to the present, Apocalypse South offers a new conceptual framework for considering what has long been considered "southern Gothic literature"--A framework less concerned with the conventions of a particular literary genre than with the ways in which literature exposes and even tries to make sense of the contradictions within cultures"--publisher's description |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (viii, 188 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-181) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780814270349 0814270344 0814293034 9780814293034 |