The World Is Our Home : Society and Culture in Contemporary Southern Writing /

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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Folks, Nancy Summers, 1946-, Folks, Jeffrey J. (Jeffrey Jay), 1948-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, [2000]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Bellettrie.
Klassenverhoudingen.
Sekseverschillen.
Rassenverhoudingen.
Social problems in literature.
Literature and society.
Literature.
Intellectual life.
Authors, American > Homes and haunts.
American literature.
LITERARY COLLECTIONS > American > General.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Écrivains americains > Residences et lieux familiers > États-Unis (Sud)
États-Unis (Sud) dans la litterature.
Problemes sociaux dans la litterature.
Litterature et societe > États-Unis (Sud) > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Litterature americaine > États-Unis (Sud) > Histoire et critique.
Authors, American > Homes and haunts > Southern States.
Literature and society > Southern States > History > 20th century.
American literature > Southern States > History and criticism.
Zuidelijke staten.
Southern States.
États-Unis (Sud) > Dans la litterature.
États-Unis (Sud) > Vie intellectuelle > 1865-
Southern States > In literature.
Southern States > Intellectual life > 1865-
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic book.
Electronic books.
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.

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