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Record Nr.

UNINA9910817789503321

Autore

Guinn Matthew

Titolo

After Southern modernism [[electronic resource] ] : fiction of the contemporary South / / Matthew Guinn

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Jackson [Miss.], : University Press of Mississippi, 2000

ISBN

1-282-82133-4

9786612821332

1-60473-889-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (233 p.)

Disciplina

813/.5409975

Soggetti

American fiction - Southern States - History and criticism

American fiction - 20th century - History and criticism

Postmodernism (Literature) - Southern States

Southern States Intellectual life 1865-

Southern States In literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-198) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- Arcady Revisited: The Poor South of Harry Crews and Dorothy Allison -- The New Naturalism of Larry Brown -- Mediation, Interpolation: Bobbie Ann Mason and Kaye Gibbons -- Atavism and the Exploded Metanarrative: Cormac McCarthy's Journey to Mythoclasm -- Into the Suburbs: Richard Ford's Sportswriter as Postsouthern Expatriate -- Signifyin(g) in the South: Randall Kenan -- Barry Hannah and the "Open Field" of Southern History -- Conclusion: No Jeremiad -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.