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This book explores connections between narrative forms and social history. It will appeal to readers interested in twentieth-century U.S. literature, race, and social class.

Table of Contents
Introduction: Poor White Southerners in the American Imaginary; 1. Riffraff and Half-Strainers: Charles W. Chesnutt and Regionalism; 2. Slow, Sweating, Stinking Bumpkins: William Faulkner and Modernism; 3. Civil Rights and Uncivil Whites: Flannery O'Connor and Southern Women's Midcentury Writing; 4. Hungry Women and Horny Men: Dorothy Allison, Barbara Robinette Moss, and Grit Lit; Coda.

Class Whiteness and Southern Literature

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      Publisher: Cambridge University Press
      Publication Date: 12/15/2022 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9781009250658, 978-1009250658
      ISBN10: 1009250655
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      ELT & Literary Studies Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This book explores connections between narrative forms and social history. It will appeal to readers interested in twentieth-century U.S. literature, race, and social class.

      Table of Contents
      Introduction: Poor White Southerners in the American Imaginary; 1. Riffraff and Half-Strainers: Charles W. Chesnutt and Regionalism; 2. Slow, Sweating, Stinking Bumpkins: William Faulkner and Modernism; 3. Civil Rights and Uncivil Whites: Flannery O'Connor and Southern Women's Midcentury Writing; 4. Hungry Women and Horny Men: Dorothy Allison, Barbara Robinette Moss, and Grit Lit; Coda.

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