Class, Whiteness, and Southern Literature

ISBN-13: 9781009250658 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 280 str.

Jolene (University of Alabama) Hubbs

Opis

Shows how representations of poor white southerners helped shape middle-class identity and major American literary movements and genres.

Spis treści

Introduction: Poor White Southerners in the American Imaginary; 1. Riffraff and Half-Strainers: Charles W. Chesnutt and Regionalism; 2. Slow, Sweating, Stinking Bumpkins: William Faulkner and Modernism; 3. Civil Rights and Uncivil Whites: Flannery O'Connor and Southern Women's Midcentury Writing; 4. Hungry Women and Horny Men: Dorothy Allison, Barbara Robinette Moss, and Grit Lit; Coda.