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Plantation Airs : Racial Paternalism and the Transformations of Class in Southern Fiction, 1945--1971 /

In Plantation Airs, Brannon Costello argues persuasively for new attention to the often neglected issue of class in southern literary studies. Focusing on the relationship between racial paternalism and social class in American novels written after World War II, Costello asserts that well into the t...

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Autor principal: Costello, Brannon, 1975-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 2007.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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505 0 |a Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: THE PROBLEM OF FLEM SNOPES'S HAT: Southern History, Racial Paternalism, and Class; 1 PATERNALISM, PROGRESS, AND "PET NEGROES": Zora Neale Hurston's Seraph on the Suwanee; 2 PLAYING LADY AND IMITATING ARISTOCRATS: Race, Class, and Money in Eudora Welty's Delta Wedding and The Ponder Heart; 3 STOPPING ON A DIME: Race, Class, and the "White Economy of Material Waste" in William Faulkner's The Mansion and The Reivers; 4 MECHANICS AND MULATTOES: Class, Work, and Race in Ernest Gaines's Of Love and Dust and "Bloodline" 
505 0 |a 5 "SUPER-NEGROES" AND HYBRID ARISTOCRATS: Race and Class in Walker Percy's The Last Gentleman and Love in the RuinsConclusion: FROM "PET NEGRO" TO "MAGIC NEGRO": Hyperreal Paternalism; Notes; Works Cited; Index 
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