The world is our home : society and culture in contemporary Southern writing

The world is our home : society and culture in contemporary Southern writing / edited by Jeffrey J. Folks and Nancy Summers Folks.

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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Other Authors: Folks, Jeffrey J. (Jeffrey Jay), 1948-, Folks, Nancy Summers, 1946-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, [2000]
Subjects:
Since 1865
American literature > Southern States > History and criticism.
Literature and society > Southern States > History > 20th century.
Authors, American > Homes and haunts > Southern States.
Social problems in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
LITERARY COLLECTIONS > American > General.
American literature
Authors, American > Homes and haunts
Intellectual life
Literature
Literature and society
Social problems in literature
Rassenverhoudingen.
Sekseverschillen.
Klassenverhoudingen.
Bellettrie.
Southern States > Intellectual life > 1865-
Southern States > In literature.
Southern States
Zuidelijke staten.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
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Table of Contents:
  • 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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