The Postsouthern Sense of Place in Contemporary Fiction /
For generations, southern novelists and critics have grappled with a concept that is widely seen as a trademark of their literature: a strong attachment to geography, or a ""sense of place."" In the 1930s, the Agrarians accorded special meaning to rural life, particularly the far...
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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés |
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Baton Rouge :
Louisiana State University Press,
2005.
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Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- Cover; Contents; Preface; PART 1. Capital, Land, and Place from Agrarianism to Postsouthernism; 1. "Not a Mere Real Estate Development": Capital, Land, and the Agrarians' Proprietary Ideal; 2. (Re)inventing the (Post)southern "Sense of Place"; PART 2. The Postsouthern Turn: Warren, Percy, Ford, and the Redevelopment of Place; 3. Toward a Postsouthern Sense of Place: Robert Penn Warren's A Place to Come To and Walker Percy's The Moviegoer; 4. Neo-Faulknerism or Postsouthernism?: Labor, Parody, and the Problem of Place in Richard Ford's A Piece of My Heart.
- 5. Land and Literary Speculations: The Postsouthern World-as-Text in Richard Ford's The Sportswriter6. New Jersey Real Estate and the Postsouthern Sense of Place: Richard Ford's Independence Day; PART 3. Placing the Postsouthern "International City": The Atlanta Conundrum; 7. Locating a Nonplace: Atlanta's Absence from Southern Literature and the Emergence of a Postsouthern "International City"; 8. Urban Renewal and Mixed-Use Developments: Place and Race in Anne Rivers Siddons's Peachtree Road and Downtown; 9. Placing the Postsouthern "International City": Atlanta in Tom Wolfe's A Man in Full.
- 10. Capitalist Abstraction and the Body Politics of Place: Toni Cade Bambara's Those Bones Are Not My ChildEpilogue: Against the Agrarian Grain, Taking the Transnational Turn; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z.