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The World Is Our Home : Society And Culture In Contemporary Southern Writing

  • The World Is Our Home : Society And Culture In  Contemporary Southern Writing
  • Attribution

    edited by Jeffrey J. Folks and Nancy Summers Folks
  • Publication Details

    Book, University Press of Kentucky, 2000
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      (UPPER LEVEL)  PS261 .S618 2000         AVAILABLE

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  • 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
  • ISBN

    • 0813121663
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