Inventing Southern Literature
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Inventing Southern Literature
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Author : Michael Kreyling
language : en
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Release Date : 2009-11-12
Inventing Southern Literature written by Michael Kreyling and has been published by Univ. Press of Mississippi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-11-12 with Literary Criticism categories.
Winner of the 1997 Eudora Welty Prize “I take. . .an outward route, arguing that the Agrarian project was and must be seen as a willed campaign on the part of one elite to establish and control ‘the South’ in a period of intense cultural maneuvering. The principal organizers of I’ll Take My Stand knew full well there were other ‘Souths’ than the one they touted; they deliberately presented a fabricated South as the one and only real thing.” In Inventing Southern Literature Michael Kreyling casts a penetrating ray upon the traditional canon of southern literature and questions the modes by which it was created. He finds that it was, indeed, an invention rather than a creation. In the 1930s the foundations were laid by the Fugitive-Agrarian group, a band of poet-critics that wished not only to design but also to control the southern cultural entity in a conservative political context. From their heyday to the present, Kreyling investigates the historical conditions under which literary and cultural critics have invented “the South” and how they have chosen its representations. Through his study of these choices, Kreyling argues that interested groups have shaped meanings that preserve “a South” as “the South.” As the Fugitive-Agrarians molded the region according to their definition in I’ll Take My Stand, they professed to have developed a critical method that disavowed any cultural or political intent or content, a claim that Kreyling disproves. He shows that their torch was taken by Richard Weaver on the Right and Louis D. Rubin, Jr., on the Center-Left and that both critics tried to preserve the Fugitive-Agrarian credo despite the severe stresses imposed during the era of desegregation. As the southern literary paradigm has been attacked and defended, certain issues have remained in the forefront. Kreyling takes on three: reconciling the imperatives of race with the traditional definitions of the South; testing the ways white women writers of the South have negotiated space within or outside the paradigm; and analyzing the critics' use and abuse of William Faulkner (the major figure of southern literature) as they have relied on his achievement to anchor the total project called Southern Literature.
Inventing Southern Literature
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Author : Michael Kreyling
language : en
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Release Date : 1998
Inventing Southern Literature written by Michael Kreyling and has been published by Univ. Press of Mississippi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with History categories.
In Inventing Southern Literature Michael Kreyling casts a penetrating ray upon the traditional canon of southern literature and questions the modes by which it was created. He finds that it was, indeed, an invention rather than a creation. From their heyday to the present, Kreyling investigates the historical conditions under which literary and cultural critics have invented "the South" and how they have chosen its representations. Through his study of these choices, Kreyling argues that interested groups have shaped meanings that preserve "a South" as "the South."
How Celtic Culture Invented Southern Literature
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Author : Cantrell, James P.
language : en
Publisher: Pelican Publishing
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How Celtic Culture Invented Southern Literature written by Cantrell, James P. and has been published by Pelican Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with categories.
Creating And Consuming The American South
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Author : Martyn Bone
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Release Date : 2019-10-16
Creating And Consuming The American South written by Martyn Bone and has been published by University Press of Florida this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-16 with History categories.
This book explores how an eclectic selection of narratives and images of the American South have been developed and disseminated. The contributors emphasize how ideas of “the South” have real social, political, and economic ramifications, and that they register at various local, regional, national, and transnational scales.
Southern Literature Cold War Culture And The Making Of Modern America
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Author : Jordan J. Dominy
language : en
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Release Date : 2020-01-27
Southern Literature Cold War Culture And The Making Of Modern America written by Jordan J. Dominy and has been published by Univ. Press of Mississippi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-01-27 with Literary Criticism categories.
During the Cold War, national discourse strove for unity through patriotism and political moderation to face a common enemy. Some authors and intellectuals supported that narrative by casting America’s complicated history with race and poverty as moral rather than merely political problems. Southern Literature, Cold War Culture, and the Making of Modern America examines southern literature and the culture within the United States from the period just before the Cold War through the civil rights movement to show how this literature won a significant place in Cold War culture and shaped the nation through the time of Hillbilly Elegy. Tackling cultural issues in the country through subtext and metaphor, the works of authors like William Faulkner, Lillian Smith, Robert Penn Warren, Eudora Welty, Ralph Ellison, Alice Walker, and Walker Percy redefined “South” as much more than a geographical identity within an empire. The “South” has become a racially coded sociopolitical and cultural identity associated with white populist conservatism that breaks geographical boundaries and, as it has in the past, continues to have a disproportionate influence on the nation’s future and values.
Keywords For Southern Studies
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Author : Thomas F. Haddox
language : en
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Release Date : 2016-08-15
Keywords For Southern Studies written by Thomas F. Haddox and has been published by University of Georgia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-08-15 with History categories.
"In Keywords for Southern Studies, the editors have compiled an eclectic collection of essays which address the fluidity and ever-changing nature of southern studies by adopting a transnational, interdisciplinary focus. This book is termed 'critical' because the essays in it are pertinent to modern life beyond the world of 'southern studies.' The non-binary, non-traditional approach of Keywords unmasks and refuses the binary thinking -- First World/Third World, self/other -- that postcolonial studies has taught us is the worst rhetorical structure of empire. Keywords promotes a holistic way of thinking that starts with southern studies but extends even further"--
The Indian In American Southern Literature
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Author : Melanie Benson Taylor
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2020-07-16
The Indian In American Southern Literature written by Melanie Benson Taylor and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-07-16 with Literary Criticism categories.
Explores the abundance of Native American representations in US Southern literature.
The History Of Southern Women S Literature
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Author : Carolyn Perry
language : en
Publisher: LSU Press
Release Date : 2002-03-01
The History Of Southern Women S Literature written by Carolyn Perry and has been published by LSU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-03-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
Many of America’s foremost, and most beloved, authors are also southern and female: Mary Chesnut, Kate Chopin, Ellen Glasgow, Zora Neale Hurston, Eudora Welty, Harper Lee, Maya Angelou, Anne Tyler, Alice Walker, and Lee Smith, to name several. Designating a writer as “southern” if her work reflects the region’s grip on her life, Carolyn Perry and Mary Louise Weaks have produced an invaluable guide to the richly diverse and enduring tradition of southern women’s literature. Their comprehensive history—the first of its kind in a relatively young field—extends from the pioneer woman to the career woman, embracing black and white, poor and privileged, urban and Appalachian perspectives and experiences. The History of Southern Women’s Literature allows readers both to explore individual authors and to follow the developing arc of various genres across time. Conduct books and slave narratives; Civil War diaries and letters; the antebellum, postbellum, and modern novel; autobiography and memoirs; poetry; magazine and newspaper writing—these and more receive close attention. Over seventy contributors are represented here, and their essays discuss a wealth of women’s issues from four centuries: race, urbanization, and feminism; the myth of southern womanhood; preset images and assigned social roles—from the belle to the mammy—and real life behind the facade of meeting others’ expectations; poverty and the labor movement; responses to Uncle Tom’s Cabin and the influence of Gone with the Wind. The history of southern women’s literature tells, ultimately, the story of the search for freedom within an “insidious tradition,” to quote Ellen Glasgow. This teeming volume validates the deep contributions and pleasures of an impressive body of writing and marks a major achievement in women’s and literary studies.
A History Of The Literature Of The U S South Volume 1
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Author : Harilaos Stecopoulos
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-05-05
A History Of The Literature Of The U S South Volume 1 written by Harilaos Stecopoulos and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-05-05 with History categories.
A History of the Literature of the U.S. South provides scholars with a dynamic and heterogeneous examination of southern writing from John Smith to Natasha Trethewey. Eschewing a master narrative limited to predictable authors and titles, the anthology adopts a variegated approach that emphasizes the cultural and political tensions crucial to the making of this regional literature. Certain chapters focus on major white writers (e.g., Thomas Jefferson, William Faulkner, the Agrarians, Cormac McCarthy), but a substantial portion of the work foregrounds the achievements of African American writers like Frederick Douglass, Zora Neale Hurston, and Sarah Wright to address the multiracial and transnational dimensions of this literary formation. Theoretically informed and historically aware, the volume's contributors collectively demonstrate how southern literature constitutes an aesthetic, cultural and political field that richly repays examination from a variety of critical perspectives.
Approaches To Teaching The Works Of Cormac Mccarthy
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Author : Stacey Peebles
language : en
Publisher: Modern Language Association
Release Date : 2021-11-01
Approaches To Teaching The Works Of Cormac Mccarthy written by Stacey Peebles and has been published by Modern Language Association this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-01 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
In the decades since his 1992 breakout novel, All the Pretty Horses, Cormac McCarthy has gained a reputation as one of the greatest contemporary American authors. Experimenting with genres such as the crime thriller, the post-apocalyptic novel, and the western, his work also engages with the aesthetics of cinema, and several of his novels have been adapted for the screen. While timely and relevant, his works use idiosyncratic language and contain intense, troubling portrayals of racism, sexism, and violence that can pose challenges for students. This volume offers strategies for guiding students through McCarthy's oeuvre, addressing all his novels as well as his published plays and screenplays. Part 1, "Materials," provides sources of biographical information and key scholarship on McCarthy. Essays in part 2, "Approaches," discuss subjects such as landscape and ecology, mythologies of the American West, film adaptations, and literary contexts and describe assignments that encourage students to write creatively and to examine their personal values.