The Female Tradition In Southern Literature
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The Female Tradition In Southern Literature
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Author : Carol S. Manning
language : en
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Release Date : 1993
The Female Tradition In Southern Literature written by Carol S. Manning and has been published by University of Illinois Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Literary Criticism categories.
This collection of critical essays examines the contributions to and influences on literature that have been made by Southern women writers.--From publisher description.
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.
Southern Women Writers
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Author : Tonette Bond Inge
language : en
Publisher: University Alabama Press
Release Date : 1990
Southern Women Writers written by Tonette Bond Inge and has been published by University Alabama Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Fiction categories.
Essays on contemporary women writers of the South: Margaret Walker, Mary Lee Settle, Ellen Douglas, Elizabeth Spencer, Joan Williams, Maya Angelou, Shirley Ann Grau, Doris Betts, Sonia Sanchez, Gail Godwin, Sylvia Wilkinson, Anne Tyler, Nikki Giovanni, Alice Walker, Lee Smith.
Dirt And Desire
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Author : Patricia Yaeger
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2009-02-15
Dirt And Desire written by Patricia Yaeger and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-02-15 with Social Science categories.
The story of southern writing—the Dixie Limited, if you will—runs along an iron path: an official narrative of a literature about community, about place and the past, about miscegenation, white patriarchy, and the epic of race. Patricia Yaeger dynamites the rails, providing an entirely new set of categories through which to understand southern literature and culture. For Yaeger, works by black and white southern women writers reveal a shared obsession with monstrosity and the grotesque and with the strange zones of contact between black and white, such as the daily trauma of underpaid labor and the workings of racial and gender politics in the unnoticed yet all too familiar everyday. Yaeger also excavates a southern fascination with dirt—who owns it, who cleans it, and whose bodies are buried in it. Yaeger's brilliant, theoretically informed readings of Zora Neale Hurston, Harper Lee, Carson McCullers, Toni Morrison, Flannery O'Connor, Alice Walker, and Eudora Welty (among many others) explode the mystifications of southern literary tradition and forge a new path for southern studies. The book won the Barbara Perkins and George Perkins Award given by the Society for the Study of Narrative Literature.
Revising Flannery O Connor
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Author : Katherine Hemple Prown
language : en
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Release Date : 2001
Revising Flannery O Connor written by Katherine Hemple Prown and has been published by University of Virginia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with History categories.
"In Revising Flannery O'Connor, Katherine Hemple Prown addresses the conflicts O'Connor experienced as a "southern lady" and professional author. Placing gender at the center of her analytical framework, Prown considers the reasons for feminist critical negelct of the writer and traces the cultural origins of the complicated aesthetic that informs O'Connor's fiction, but published and unpublished.".
Southern Mothers
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Author : Nagueyalti Warren
language : en
Publisher: LSU Press
Release Date : 1999-10-01
Southern Mothers written by Nagueyalti Warren and has been published by LSU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-10-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
Southern Mothers, a collection of critical essays by prominent southern literary scholars, examines the significance of motherhood in southern fiction. The belle, the mammy, religion, and racism are several of the distinctive threads with which southern women writers have woven the fabric of their stories. Bringing southern motherhood into focus -- with all its peculiarities of attitude and tradition -- the essays speak to both the established and the unconventional modes of motherhood that are typical in southern writing and probe the extent to which southern women writers have rejected or embraced, supported or challenged the individual, social, and cultural understanding and institution of motherhood.
The Companion To Southern Literature
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Author : Joseph M. Flora
language : en
Publisher: LSU Press
Release Date : 2001-11-01
The Companion To Southern Literature written by Joseph M. Flora and has been published by LSU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-11-01 with Reference categories.
Selected as an Outstanding Academic Title by Choice Selected as an Outstanding Reference Source by the Reference and User Services Association of the American Library Association There are many anthologies of southern literature, but this is the first companion. Neither a survey of masterpieces nor a biographical sourcebook, The Companion to Southern Literature treats every conceivable topic found in southern writing from the pre-Columbian era to the present, referencing specific works of all periods and genres. Top scholars in their fields offer original definitions and examples of the concepts they know best, identifying the themes, burning issues, historical personalities, beloved icons, and common or uncommon stereotypes that have shaped the most significant regional literature in memory. Read the copious offerings straight through in alphabetical order (Ancestor Worship, Blue-Collar Literature, Caves) or skip randomly at whim (Guilt, The Grotesque, William Jefferson Clinton). Whatever approach you take, The Companion’s authority, scope, and variety in tone and interpretation will prove a boon and a delight. Explored here are literary embodiments of the Old South, New South, Solid South, Savage South, Lazy South, and “Sahara of the Bozart.” As up-to-date as grit lit, K Mart fiction, and postmodernism, and as old-fashioned as Puritanism, mules, and the tall tale, these five hundred entries span a reach from Lady to Lesbian Literature. The volume includes an overview of every southern state’s belletristic heritage while making it clear that the southern mind extends beyond geographical boundaries to form an essential component of the American psyche. The South’s lavishly rich literature provides the best means of understanding the region’s deepest nature, and The Companion to Southern Literature will be an invaluable tool for those who take on that exciting challenge. Description of Contents 500 lively, succinct articles on topics ranging from Abolition to Yoknapatawpha 250 contributors, including scholars, writers, and poets 2 tables of contents — alphabetical and subject — and a complete index A separate bibliography for most entries
Women In Southern Literature
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Author : Patricia Sweeney
language : en
Publisher: Greenwood
Release Date : 1986-04-22
Women In Southern Literature written by Patricia Sweeney and has been published by Greenwood this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986-04-22 with Literary Criticism categories.
This index identifies some 1,000 female characters who appear in novels, short stories, and plays about the American South. All of the major and some of the minor characters created by the most distinguished Southern writers are included. (Authors who wrote about the South but who were not born or raised there are excluded.) All characters are listed alphabetically, followed by a short description of their character traits and/or role. This is followed by the work(s) of literature in which the character appears and the author's name. Sweeney's introduction includes an explanation of the scope, organization, and rationale of the work. Also covered are the depictions of women by Southern writers, including stereotypical patterns, racial differences, regional diversity, and developmental progress or changes in portraiture. Following the index is an appendix listing fifteen categories of Southern female characters. The labels for these categories are drawn from the literature itself. Author and title indexes conclude the work.
A Southern Weave Of Women
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Author : Linda Tate
language : en
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Release Date : 1996
A Southern Weave Of Women written by Linda Tate 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 1996 with Literary Criticism categories.
A Southern Weave of Women is one of the first sustained treatments of the generation women writers who came of age in the post-World War II South as well as one of the first to situate southern literature fully within a multicultural context
The Fiction Of Ellen Gilchrist
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Author : Margaret Donovan Bauer
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999
The Fiction Of Ellen Gilchrist written by Margaret Donovan Bauer and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Literary Criticism categories.
"Original and highly significant. . . . Exposes the brilliance of Gilchrist's technique while at the same time revealing exquisite connections. . . . The depth and range of Bauer's work certainly offer readers insight into Gilchrist's fiction, but also suggest new ways of approaching American literature."--Carolyn Perry, Westminster College "Margaret Bauer's intertextual reading of Ellen Gilchrist's fiction enriches and informs us on two fronts. She deepens our encounter with the fiction itself, and she greatly extends our knowledge of Gilchrist's imaginative engagement of Hemingway, Porter, Faulkner, Chopin, and other American literary precursors."--Peggy Prenshaw, Louisiana State University Margaret Bauer, in the first book to offer a serious analysis of Ellen Gilchrist's literary style, places this enormously popular contemporary southern writer squarely in the American literary canon. Bauer introduces readers first to what she terms the organic story cycle of Gilchrist's work. She then examines the stories and novels alongside those of four other major American writers, arguing that Gilchrist has transformed both the American patriarchal short story tradition epitomized by Hemingway and the southern patriarchal literary tradition epitomized by Faulkner. Gilchrist, she says, thus joins the ranks of two other women writers--Katherine Anne Porter and Kate Chopin--who have subverted the patriarchy. But Gilchrist also transforms their writing, she contends, by depicting female characters who embody refreshing, usually positive strategies for coping with oppression. This intertextual reading reveals the traditions out of which Gilchrist's work emerges while illuminating her substantial contribution to the American traditions of the short story, southern literature, and women's literature. Margaret Donovan Bauer, assistant professor of English at East Carolina University, has published articles on southern women writers in Studies in Short Fiction, College Language Association Journal, and Southern Literary Journal. She is the editor of North Carolina Literary Review.