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Understanding Tim Gautreaux (Understanding Contemporary American Literature)
Margaret Donovan Bauer
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Description for Understanding Tim Gautreaux (Understanding Contemporary American Literature)
Hardcover. Offers an introduction to the works of a Cajun writer who finds optimism in his blue-collar tales. This book presents a study of the Louisiana storyteller, who injects a seldom heard Cajun voice into Southern literature and offers a optimistic vision among other contemporary writers of the hardscrabble American South. Series Editor(s): Bruccoli, Matthew J. Series: Understanding Contemporary American Literature. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 178 x 127 x 30. Weight in Grams: 340.
This book offers an introduction to the works of a Cajun writer who finds optimism in his blue-collar tales. Margaret Donovan Bauer presents the first book-length study of the Louisiana storyteller, who injects a seldom heard Cajun voice into Southern literature and offers a rare optimistic vision among other contemporary writers of the hardscrabble American South. Bauer surveys Tim Gautreaux's three novels - ""The Next Step in the Dance"", ""The Clearing, and ""The Missing"" - and two collections of short fiction - ""Same Place, Same Things"" and ""Welding with Children"" - to identify his major themes, character types, and structures. ... Read more
This book offers an introduction to the works of a Cajun writer who finds optimism in his blue-collar tales. Margaret Donovan Bauer presents the first book-length study of the Louisiana storyteller, who injects a seldom heard Cajun voice into Southern literature and offers a rare optimistic vision among other contemporary writers of the hardscrabble American South. Bauer surveys Tim Gautreaux's three novels - ""The Next Step in the Dance"", ""The Clearing, and ""The Missing"" - and two collections of short fiction - ""Same Place, Same Things"" and ""Welding with Children"" - to identify his major themes, character types, and structures. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of South Carolina Press
Condition
New
Series
Understanding Contemporary American Literature
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
South Carolina, United States
ISBN
9781570038594
SKU
V9781570038594
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Ref
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About Margaret Donovan Bauer
Louisiana native Margaret Donovan Bauer is a professor of English at East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina, where she was named the first Ralph Hardee Rives Chair of Southern Literature.
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