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Dirt and Desire: Reconstructing Southern Women´s Writing, 1930-1990
Patricia Yaeger
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Description for Dirt and Desire: Reconstructing Southern Women´s Writing, 1930-1990
Paperback. The story of southern writing runs along an iron path; an official narrative of a literature about community, place and past, miscegenation, white patriarchy and the epic of race. This text provides an entirely different set of categories through which to understand southern literature and culture. Num Pages: 336 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBS; 2ABM; 3JJG; 3JJH; 3JJP; DSBH; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 225 x 159 x 23. Weight in Grams: 466.
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 partiarchy 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 labour and the ... Read more
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 partiarchy 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 labour and the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
Number of Pages
342
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226944913
SKU
V9780226944913
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