The Resource The world is our home : society and culture in contemporary Southern writing, edited by Jeffrey J. Folks and Nancy Summers Folks
The world is our home : society and culture in contemporary Southern writing, edited by Jeffrey J. Folks and Nancy Summers Folks
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- Summary
- Since the early 1970s southern fiction has been increasingly attentive to social issues, including the continuing struggles for racial justice and gender equality, the loss of a sense of social community, and the decline of a coherent regional identity. The essays in The World Is Our Home focus on writers who have explicitly addressed social and cultural issues in their fiction and drama, including Dorothy Allison, Horton Foote, Ernest J. Gaines, Jill McCorkle, Walker Percy, Lee Smith, William Styron, Alice Walker, and many others. The contributors provide valuable insights into the transform
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (289 pages)
- Contents
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- The world is our home : an introduction / Jeffrey J. Folks and Nancy Summers Folks
- Competing histories : William Styron's The confessions of Nat Turner and Sherley Ann Williams's Dessa Rose / Susan Goodman
- New narratives of southern manhood : race, masculinity, and closure in Ernest Gaines's fiction / Suzanne W. Jones
- The snake and the rosary : violence and the culture of piety in Sheila Bosworth's Slow poison / Gary M. Ciuba
- "Because God's eye never closes" : the problem of evil in Jayne Anne Phillips's Shelter / James Grove
- Gender and justice : Alice Walker and the sexual politics of civil rights / Keith Byerman
- "Trouble" in Muskhogean County : the social history of a southern community in the fiction of Raymond Andrews / Jeffrey J. Folks
- "The politics of they" : Dorothy Allison's Bastard out of Carolina as critique of class, gender, and sexual ideologies / Moira P. Baker
- Transcendence in the house of the dead : the subversive gaze of A lesson before dying / John Lowe
- Walker Percy's Lancelot Lamar : defending the hollow core / Julius Raper
- Regeneration through nonviolence : Frederick Barthelme and the west / Robert H. Brinkmeyer Jr.
- Making peace with the (m)other / Barbara Bennett
- Toward healing the split : Lee Smith's Fancy strut and Black Mountain breakdown / Linda J. Byrd
- Stories told by their survivors (and other sins of memory) : survivor guilt in Kaye Gibbons's Ellen Foster / Linda Watts
- James Lee Burke's Dave Robicheaux novels / Frank W. Shelton
- The physical hunger for the spiritual : southern religious experience in the plays of Horton Foote / Gerald C. Wood
- Richard Ford : the postmodern exile and the vanishing South / Joanna Price
- Isbn
- 9780813161556
- Label
- The world is our home : society and culture in contemporary Southern writing
- Title
- The world is our home
- Title remainder
- society and culture in contemporary Southern writing
- Statement of responsibility
- edited by Jeffrey J. Folks and Nancy Summers Folks
- Subject
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- American literature
- American literature -- Southern States -- History and criticism
- Authors, American -- Homes and haunts
- Authors, American -- Homes and haunts -- Southern States
- Bellettrie
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Electronic book
- Electronic books
- History
- Intellectual life
- Klassenverhoudingen
- LITERARY COLLECTIONS -- American | General
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- American | General
- Literature
- Literature and society
- Literature and society -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century
- Littérature américaine -- États-Unis (Sud) -- Histoire et critique
- Littérature et société -- États-Unis (Sud) -- Histoire -- 20e siècle
- Problèmes sociaux dans la littérature
- Rassenverhoudingen
- Sekseverschillen
- Since 1865
- Social problems in literature
- Social problems in literature
- Southern States
- Southern States -- In literature
- Southern States -- Intellectual life -- 1865-
- Zuidelijke staten
- États-Unis (Sud) dans la littérature
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Since the early 1970s southern fiction has been increasingly attentive to social issues, including the continuing struggles for racial justice and gender equality, the loss of a sense of social community, and the decline of a coherent regional identity. The essays in The World Is Our Home focus on writers who have explicitly addressed social and cultural issues in their fiction and drama, including Dorothy Allison, Horton Foote, Ernest J. Gaines, Jill McCorkle, Walker Percy, Lee Smith, William Styron, Alice Walker, and many others. The contributors provide valuable insights into the transform
- Action
- digitized
- Cataloging source
- EBLCP
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
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- dictionaries
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorDate
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- 1948-
- 1946-
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
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- Folks, Jeffrey J.
- Folks, Nancy Summers
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- American literature
- Literature and society
- Authors, American
- Southern States
- Southern States
- Social problems in literature
- Littérature américaine
- Littérature et société
- Problèmes sociaux dans la littérature
- États-Unis (Sud) dans la littérature
- LITERARY CRITICISM
- LITERARY COLLECTIONS
- American literature
- Authors, American
- Intellectual life
- Literature
- Literature and society
- Social problems in literature
- Southern States
- Rassenverhoudingen
- Sekseverschillen
- Klassenverhoudingen
- Bellettrie
- Zuidelijke staten
- Label
- The world is our home : society and culture in contemporary Southern writing, edited by Jeffrey J. Folks and Nancy Summers Folks
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
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- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- The world is our home : an introduction / Jeffrey J. Folks and Nancy Summers Folks -- Competing histories : William Styron's The confessions of Nat Turner and Sherley Ann Williams's Dessa Rose / Susan Goodman -- New narratives of southern manhood : race, masculinity, and closure in Ernest Gaines's fiction / Suzanne W. Jones -- The snake and the rosary : violence and the culture of piety in Sheila Bosworth's Slow poison / Gary M. Ciuba -- "Because God's eye never closes" : the problem of evil in Jayne Anne Phillips's Shelter / James Grove -- Gender and justice : Alice Walker and the sexual politics of civil rights / Keith Byerman -- "Trouble" in Muskhogean County : the social history of a southern community in the fiction of Raymond Andrews / Jeffrey J. Folks -- "The politics of they" : Dorothy Allison's Bastard out of Carolina as critique of class, gender, and sexual ideologies / Moira P. Baker -- Transcendence in the house of the dead : the subversive gaze of A lesson before dying / John Lowe -- Walker Percy's Lancelot Lamar : defending the hollow core / Julius Raper -- Regeneration through nonviolence : Frederick Barthelme and the west / Robert H. Brinkmeyer Jr. -- Making peace with the (m)other / Barbara Bennett -- Toward healing the split : Lee Smith's Fancy strut and Black Mountain breakdown / Linda J. Byrd -- Stories told by their survivors (and other sins of memory) : survivor guilt in Kaye Gibbons's Ellen Foster / Linda Watts -- James Lee Burke's Dave Robicheaux novels / Frank W. Shelton -- The physical hunger for the spiritual : southern religious experience in the plays of Horton Foote / Gerald C. Wood -- Richard Ford : the postmodern exile and the vanishing South / Joanna Price
- Control code
- ocn900344963
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (289 pages)
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780813161556
- Lccn
- 99089784
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- c
- Note
- JSTOR
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 22573/ctt12997ph
- Quality assurance targets
- not applicable
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Reproduction note
- Electronic reproduction.
- Sound
- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)900344963
- System details
- Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
- Label
- The world is our home : society and culture in contemporary Southern writing, edited by Jeffrey J. Folks and Nancy Summers Folks
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- The world is our home : an introduction / Jeffrey J. Folks and Nancy Summers Folks -- Competing histories : William Styron's The confessions of Nat Turner and Sherley Ann Williams's Dessa Rose / Susan Goodman -- New narratives of southern manhood : race, masculinity, and closure in Ernest Gaines's fiction / Suzanne W. Jones -- The snake and the rosary : violence and the culture of piety in Sheila Bosworth's Slow poison / Gary M. Ciuba -- "Because God's eye never closes" : the problem of evil in Jayne Anne Phillips's Shelter / James Grove -- Gender and justice : Alice Walker and the sexual politics of civil rights / Keith Byerman -- "Trouble" in Muskhogean County : the social history of a southern community in the fiction of Raymond Andrews / Jeffrey J. Folks -- "The politics of they" : Dorothy Allison's Bastard out of Carolina as critique of class, gender, and sexual ideologies / Moira P. Baker -- Transcendence in the house of the dead : the subversive gaze of A lesson before dying / John Lowe -- Walker Percy's Lancelot Lamar : defending the hollow core / Julius Raper -- Regeneration through nonviolence : Frederick Barthelme and the west / Robert H. Brinkmeyer Jr. -- Making peace with the (m)other / Barbara Bennett -- Toward healing the split : Lee Smith's Fancy strut and Black Mountain breakdown / Linda J. Byrd -- Stories told by their survivors (and other sins of memory) : survivor guilt in Kaye Gibbons's Ellen Foster / Linda Watts -- James Lee Burke's Dave Robicheaux novels / Frank W. Shelton -- The physical hunger for the spiritual : southern religious experience in the plays of Horton Foote / Gerald C. Wood -- Richard Ford : the postmodern exile and the vanishing South / Joanna Price
- Control code
- ocn900344963
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (289 pages)
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780813161556
- Lccn
- 99089784
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Note
- JSTOR
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 22573/ctt12997ph
- Quality assurance targets
- not applicable
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Reproduction note
- Electronic reproduction.
- Sound
- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)900344963
- System details
- Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Subject
- American literature
- American literature -- Southern States -- History and criticism
- Authors, American -- Homes and haunts
- Authors, American -- Homes and haunts -- Southern States
- Bellettrie
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Electronic book
- Electronic books
- History
- Intellectual life
- Klassenverhoudingen
- LITERARY COLLECTIONS -- American | General
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- American | General
- Literature
- Literature and society
- Literature and society -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century
- Littérature américaine -- États-Unis (Sud) -- Histoire et critique
- Littérature et société -- États-Unis (Sud) -- Histoire -- 20e siècle
- Problèmes sociaux dans la littérature
- Rassenverhoudingen
- Sekseverschillen
- Since 1865
- Social problems in literature
- Social problems in literature
- Southern States
- Southern States -- In literature
- Southern States -- Intellectual life -- 1865-
- Zuidelijke staten
- États-Unis (Sud) dans la littérature
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