A southern weave of women: fiction of the contemporary South

Since 1980 the South has experienced a tremendous resurgence in fiction by women - black and white, rich and poor, from the deep South and from Appalachia. This revival marks a critical stage in the development of southern literature, for it offers a revisionary, multicultural, feminist, yet still t...

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1. Verfasser: Tate, Linda (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Athens [u.a.] Univ. of Georgia Press 1994
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Zusammenfassung:Since 1980 the South has experienced a tremendous resurgence in fiction by women - black and white, rich and poor, from the deep South and from Appalachia. This revival marks a critical stage in the development of southern literature, for it offers a revisionary, multicultural, feminist, yet still traditionally southern perspective
A Southern Weave of Women is one of the first sustained treatments of the generation women writers who came of age in the post-World War II South as well as one of the first to situate southern literature fully within a multicultural context
Linda Tate considers the ways in which the women writers of the present generation reflect, expand, transform and redefine longstanding notions of regional culture and womanhood. Focusing on women who suggest the regional, class, and ethnic diversity contemporary southern writing, Tate discusses such writers as Jill McCorkle, Shay Youngblood, Ellen Douglas, Dori Sanders, Rita Mae Brown, Lee Smith, Alice Walker, Bobbie Ann Mason, Linda Beatrice Brown, and Kaye Gibbons
Beschreibung:X, 243 S.
ISBN:0820316148
0820318507

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