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Entitled to the Pedestal: Place, Race, and Progress in White Southern Women's Writing,1920-1945
Nghana Tamu Lewis
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Hardcover. Offers a reading of the works and private correspondences, essays, and lectures of five southern white women writers: Julia Peterkin, Gwen Bristow, Caroline Gordon, Willa Cather, and Lillian Smith. This work presents a reexamination of the myth of southern white womanhood. Num Pages: 188 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBS; 2AB; DSBH. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 517.
In this searching study, Nghana Lewis offers a close reading of the works and private correspondences, essays, and lectures of five southern white women writers: Julia Peterkin, Gwen Bristow, Caroline Gordon, Willa Cather, and Lillian Smith. At the core of this work is a sophisticated reexamination of the myth of southern white womanhood. Lewis overturns the conventional argument that white women were passive and pedestal-bound. Instead, she argues that these figures were complicit in the day-to-day dynamics of power and authorship and stood to gain much from these arrangements at the expense of others. At the same time that her ... Read more
In this searching study, Nghana Lewis offers a close reading of the works and private correspondences, essays, and lectures of five southern white women writers: Julia Peterkin, Gwen Bristow, Caroline Gordon, Willa Cather, and Lillian Smith. At the core of this work is a sophisticated reexamination of the myth of southern white womanhood. Lewis overturns the conventional argument that white women were passive and pedestal-bound. Instead, she argues that these figures were complicit in the day-to-day dynamics of power and authorship and stood to gain much from these arrangements at the expense of others. At the same time that her ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University Of Iowa Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
188
Place of Publication
Iowa, United States
ISBN
9781587295294
SKU
V9781587295294
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About Nghana Tamu Lewis
Nghana tamu Lewis is an assistant professor in the department of English at Tulane University and an associate of Tulane's program in African and African Diaspora Studies. She has a BA from Tulane, an MA and PhD from the University of Illinois - Urbana/Champaign, and a JD from Loyola University - New Orleans.
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