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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bone, Martyn, 1974-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 2005.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Setting (Literature)
Regionalism in literature.
Place (Philosophy) in literature.
Local color in literature.
Literature.
Intellectual life.
American fiction.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Espace et temps (Litterature)
Litterature regionale.
Couleur locale dans la litterature.
Lieu (Philosophie) dans la litterature.
Roman americain > 20e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Roman americain > États-Unis (Sud) > Histoire et critique.
American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
American fiction > Southern States > History and criticism.
Southern States.
Georgia > Atlanta.
États-Unis (Sud) > Dans la litterature.
États-Unis (Sud) > Vie intellectuelle > 1865-
Atlanta (Ga.) > In literature.
Southern States > In literature.
Southern States > Intellectual life > 1865-
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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