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Record Nr.

UNINA9910552768503321

Autore

Hoefer Anthony Dyer <1978->

Titolo

Apocalypse South : Judgment, Cataclysm, and Resistance in the Regional Imaginary / / Anthony Dyer Hoefer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Columbus : , : Ohio State University Press, , 2012

©2012

ISBN

0-8142-7034-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (viii, 188 p. )

Collana

Literature, religion, and postsecular studies

Disciplina

813/.009353

Soggetti

American literature - Southern States - History and criticism

Apocalypse in literature

Apocalyptic literature - History and criticism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 173-181) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Tracing the apocalyptic imaginary -- Southern Jeremiad, American Jeremiad : region, nation, and apocalypse in Faulkner's Light in August -- "Tearing down the temple" : prophetic time and Richard Wright's eschatology of resistance -- "Some say ain't no earthly explanation" : excavating the apocalyptic landscape of Randall Kenan's Tims creek -- "An't it time the Lord did something?" : vindication and the practices of place in Bastard out of Carolina -- Epilogue : Apocalypse south, redux : searching for meaning after the flood.