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Showing 1 to 20 of 34 for “"Southern literature"”.
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Repressions and revisions: the afterlife of slavery in Southern literature
… scholars have explored the memory of slavery in Southern literature, my project expands these readings through a hybrid critical methodology from the fields of trauma studies, African American studies, historiography, and psychoanalysis to articulate how texts about the antebellum past enable …
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Architectures for a Future South: Posthumanism and Ruin in the Novels of Cormac McCarthy
… reads the novels of Cormac McCarthy as posthuman southern literature to explain why fiction from the South after World War II could no longer convey a sense of place during postmodernity: that is, because the region's culture and economy were transitioning from predominantly humanistic thinking …
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Southern Noir: Appropriations and Alterations of a Twentieth-Century Form
Southern noir conjoins the two seemingly antithetical words in a telling fashion. The word noir conjures images of cheap films about detectives, criminals, and luckless men scurrying across a city at night with expressionistic shadows and light play, a foreboding sense of doom, and deadly seductive …
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Southern Fiction: Southern Small-Town Culture and Its Landmarks
<p>Southern small-town culture is marked by a close-knit community's strict societal expectations and hierarchy, the undeniable familiarity of all the residents and their business in a particular small town such as Bloomingdale, Georgia; and a resistance or inability to be affected by time. The …
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The Apparition of the Little Giant
… an abolitionist. He is studied in contemporary literature. For years however, he has gone largely unnoticed in the genre of Southern literature, a genre which he helped pioneer and shape into a field that comprises over half of America’s literary prowess. I take works from Mark Twain and William …
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Queer Tastes: An Exploration of Food and Sexuality in Southern Lesbian Literature
<p>Southern identities are undoubtedly influenced by the region's foodways. However, the South tends to neglect and even to negate certain peoples and their identities. Women, especially lesbians, are often silenced within southern literature. Where Tennessee Williams used literature to bridge gaps …
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The Literary Reception of Paul Hamilton Hayne and His Place in the American and Southern Literary Canons
… Even the literary histories and anthologies of Southern literature tend to down play his role as a man of letters and poet of consequence. This diminution of Hayne's literary reputation has taken place despite the respect for his poetry and criticism that came from leading poets and critics in …
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An annotated bibliography of works both by and about Cleanth Brooks 1977-1984
… works indexed by the MLA and Essays in General Literature. The second section will present these entries with the accompanying annotations and will be divided into four content groups: William Faulkner; Southern Literature (excluding entries pertinent to Faulkner); Criticism; and Miscellaneous. …
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The Little Magazine in the US South, 1921-1945
… magazines in the American South during the ‘Southern Renaissance’, a period of cultural flourishing in the region associated with authors such as William Faulkner. This period also saw the little magazine boom, where hundreds of cheaply printed magazines with small circulations published some …
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'Truth Is Stranger Than Fiction': Black Women in American Literature of the *South
… to consider what the ""South"" and what ""southernness"" mean as cultural references without looking at how black women have contributed to and contested any unified definition of that region. I focus on the late nineteenth century, a period of intense regional conflict when southern blacks …
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Lopsided, Scarred, and Squint-Eyed: Ugly Women in the Work of Southern Women Writers
… of ugly female characters in the work of southern women calls into question what W. J. Cash termed “gyneolatry,” the worship of the beautiful white woman upon which so much of southern ideology has been based. If the South functions as an internal other for the nation, then examining this …
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Paddle faster I hear techno music: mapping the prehomosexual and the posthomosexual in the souths of James Dickey and Samuel R. Delany
… of the Nest of Spiders are works of speculative Southern fiction by reading them through David Halperin’s “How to do the History of Male Homosexuality” and his notion of prehomosexual discourses. It begins by using Clayton Bigsby as a model to show the fundamental work of speculative fiction to …
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Dark Houses: Navigating Space and Negotiating Silence in the Novels of Faulkner, Warren and Morrison
… of Usher, but perhaps the whole of what is "Southern" in Southern Literature. Many characters who inhabit the worlds of Southern stories also inhabit houses that, like the House of Usher, are built on the faulty foundation of an ideological system that divides the world into …
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Material Melancholy: Stranded Objects In Modern Southern Women's Writing
… traces the origins and uses of a specifically southern obsession with the past. Examining how southern women writers represent the compulsion to remember, I demonstrate how, in their narratives, efforts to retain intimate relationships with an idealized past obstruct characters' ability to live …
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The Theology of Flannery O'Connor: Biblical Recapitulations in the Fiction of Flannery O'Connor
This thesis examines the way Flannery O'Connor's stories draw upon and transfigure various biblical texts. With sometimes shocking freedom, she twists open the original stories or references, reworking and redistributing their basic elements. Often reversing the polarity of the original stories, …
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Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind: The Everyday Southern Epic
… study examines the ways in which GWTW writes the Southern nation into history, and how the objective portrayal of its epic heroine reflects the emergence of the New Southern nation. More specifically, it looks at how the depiction of Scarlett O'Hara's "everyday" existence reflects the larger New …
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Literary Dialect In Flannery O'Connor's "The Lame Shall Enter First" And "Good Country People"
… in her portrayal of African American English and Southern English, but that her writing was also accurate in comparison to language use in the South. The findings suggest that O’Connor’s characters were true to life in the Southern US at the time of her writing and further lend credence to …
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The dead rise the dead and walk among the living: An examination of the haunting South, queerness, and grotesqueries in Truman Capote's "Other Voices, Other Rooms" and "Local Color"
… haunting South purposefully moves away from the Southern Gothic, rooting itself instead in a space that is much less nostalgic for the Old South, and much less interested in the narrative surrounding the fall of the South/rehashing of the Civil War, but rather is informed by critical theory that …
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Encounters with problems and challenges and the formal complaints mechanism in public health: Accounts and perceptions of a set of junior health professionals during early employment experience
… been studied extensively in both Northern and Southern literature; the bullying experienced by junior doctors and other junior health professionals have been extensively studied in Western literature with very little being done to study this phenomenon. Further, very little has been done to …
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