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Autore |
Davis Thadious M. <1944-> |
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Titolo |
Southscapes : geographies of race, region, and literature / / Thadious M. Davis |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Chapel Hill, N.C., : University of North Carolina Press, c2011 |
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ISBN |
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979-88-908400-4-2 |
1-4696-0255-5 |
0-8078-6932-5 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (471 p.) |
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Collana |
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New directions in southern studies |
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Disciplina |
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810.9/896073075 |
810.9896073075 |
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Soggetti |
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American literature - African American authors |
American literature - Southern States |
Geographical perception in literature |
African Americans - Race identity |
Place (Philosophy) in literature |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Introduction. A map of the territory -- Southscapes : race, region, and reclamation -- Poverty and porches: controversial Mississippi -- Power and profession : Richard Wright's Mississippi and its expatriate legacies -- Politics and paysans : multicultural Louisiana and the space of the Crolit -- Parishes and prisons : Ernest Gaines's Louisiana and its North Carolina kin space -- Alice Walker matters : the fruits of gendered space. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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In this innovative approach to southern literary cultures, Thadious Davis analyzes how black southern writers use their spatial location to articulate the vexed connections between society and environment, particularly under segregation and its legacies. Basing her analysis on texts by Ernest Gaines, Richard Wright, Alice Walker, Natasha Trethewey, Olympia Vernon, Brenda Marie Osbey, Sybil Kein, and others, Davis reveals how these writers reconstitute racial exclusion as creative black space, rather than a site of trauma and resistance. Utilizing the social and political separation epi |
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