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"By interpreting segregation as the central experience for twenty-first century southern literature (just as slavery was for an earlier generation of writers) and by theorizing the interconnected aspects of racial and spatial constructions in the formation of the nation, Davis shows us a way to...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Davis, Thadious M., 1944- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 2011.
Series:New directions in southern studies.
Subjects:
American literature > African American authors.
American literature > Southern States.
Geographical perception in literature.
African Americans > Race identity.
Place (Philosophy) in literature.
Littérature américaine > États-Unis (Sud)
Perception géographique dans la littérature.
Noirs américains > Identité ethnique.
Lieu (Philosophie) dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > African American.
African Americans > Race identity
American literature
American literature > African American authors
Geographical perception in literature
Place (Philosophy) in literature
Schwarze
Literatur
Region > Motiv
Ethnische Identität > Motiv
Literatur.
Amerikanisches Englisch.
Motiv.
Ethnizität.
Raum.
Rassentrennung.
Schwarze.
Littérature américaine > Auteurs noirs américains.
Littérature américaine > États-Unis (sud)
Perception géographique > Dans la littérature.
Southern States
USA > Südstaaten
Südstaaten (USA)
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction. A map of the territory
  • Southscapes : race, region, and reclamation
  • Poverty and porches: controversial Mississippi
  • Power and profession : Richard Wright's Mississippi and its expatriate legacies
  • Politics and paysans : multicultural Louisiana and the space of the Crolit
  • Parishes and prisons : Ernest Gaines's Louisiana and its North Carolina kin space
  • Alice Walker matters : the fruits of gendered space.

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