The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of the American South

ISBN-13: 9781107036789 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 262 str.

Sharon Monteith

Opis

Featuring essays written by an international team of experts, this Companion maps the dynamic literary landscape of the American South.

Recenzje

'This collection has strengths in its essays treating the chronological divisions of this field, but it also considers newly developed approaches, including queer and transnational ones … A helpful bibliographical guide to the various divisions is independent of the essays' notes … Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty.' T. Bonner, Jr, Choice

Spis treści

Introduction: mapping the figurative South Sharon Monteith; 1. Region, genre, and the nineteenth-century South Kathryn B. McKee; 2. Slave narratives and neo-slave narratives Judie Newman; 3. Literature and the Civil War Will Kaufman; 4. Literature and Reconstruction Scott Romine; 5. Southern verse in poetry and song Ernest Suarez; 6. Southern modernists and modernity David A. Davis; 7. Poverty and progress Sarah Robertson; 8. The Southern renaissance and the Faulknerian South John T. Matthews; 9. Southern women writers and their influence Pearl McHaney; 10. Hollywood dreaming: Southern writers and the movies Sarah Gleeson-White; 11. Civil rights fiction Sharon Monteith; 12. Southern drama Gary Richards; 13. Queering the South Michael Bibler; 14. Immigrant writers: transnational stories of a 'worlded' South Nahem Yousaf.