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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"southern grotesque"”.
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The Early Thirties Novels of Erskine Caldwell (Depression, Southern, Grotesque)
… Tobacco Road, and Journeyman described Georgia grotesques whose primitivism and overt sexuality drew the attention of millions of readers. A fourth novel of the period, "Autumn Hill," was less successful. About Maine rather than Georgia and unpublished until the early 1950s, it reveals some of …
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The Return of the Dead: Resurrecting Chappell's Family Gathering
… and how the poems operate within the mode of the grotesque. I argue that the poems illuminate both the southern grotesque and Roland Barthes’s theory of photography’s <em>Operator, Spectator, </em>and <em>Spectrum</em>. I address <em>Family Gathering </em>as a family photo album full of still …
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The only light shot out as usual: Defining an Appalachian Grotesque
… as a tangible production of an Appalachian grotesque, a grotesque constructed through the subversion of the modern American gothic as a critical model for exploring Appalachian identity, particularly nationally othered and queered identities. The scope of this project ranges from …