04793nam 2200721Ia 450 991081920030332120200520144314.01-282-07029-097866120702970-226-94492-110.7208/9780226944920(CKB)1000000000725010(EBL)432317(OCoLC)368762807(SSID)ssj0000139512(PQKBManifestationID)11154896(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000139512(PQKBWorkID)10010130(PQKB)10084161(MiAaPQ)EBC432317(DE-B1597)535516(OCoLC)1055474170(DE-B1597)9780226944920(Au-PeEL)EBL432317(CaPaEBR)ebr10286145(CaONFJC)MIL207029(EXLCZ)99100000000072501019991217d2000 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrDirt and desire[electronic resource] reconstructing southern women's writing, 1930-1990 /Patricia YaegerChicago University of Chicago Press20001 online resource (344 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-226-94491-3 0-226-94490-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter -- Contents -- Prologue -- Chapter One Southern Women Writers: A Confederacy of Water Moccasins -- Chapter Two. Dynamiting the Rails: Desegregating Southern Literary Studies -- Chapter Three. "And Every Baby ... Was Floating Round in the Water, Drowned": Throwaway Bodies in Southern Fiction -- Chapter Four. Race and the Cloud of Unknowing -- Chapter Five. Beyond the Hummingbird: Southern Gargantuas -- Chapter Six. Politics in the Kitchen: Roosevelt, McCullers, and Surrealist History -- Chapter Seven. White Objects, Black Ownership: Object Politics in Southern Fiction -- Chapter Eight. The Body as Testimony -- Chapter Nine. Studying the Waffle house Chain, or Dirt as Desire in Their Eyes Were Watching God -- Notes -- References -- IndexThe story of southern writing-the Dixie Limited, if you will-runs along an iron path: an official narrative of a literature about community, about place and the past, about miscegenation, white patriarchy, and the epic of race. Patricia Yaeger dynamites the rails, providing an entirely new set of categories through which to understand southern literature and culture. For Yaeger, works by black and white southern women writers reveal a shared obsession with monstrosity and the grotesque and with the strange zones of contact between black and white, such as the daily trauma of underpaid labor and the workings of racial and gender politics in the unnoticed yet all too familiar everyday. Yaeger also excavates a southern fascination with dirt-who owns it, who cleans it, and whose bodies are buried in it. Yaeger's brilliant, theoretically informed readings of Zora Neale Hurston, Harper Lee, Carson McCullers, Toni Morrison, Flannery O'Connor, Alice Walker, and Eudora Welty (among many others) explode the mystifications of southern literary tradition and forge a new path for southern studies. The book won the Barbara Perkins and George Perkins Award given by the Society for the Study of Narrative Literature.American fictionSouthern StatesHistory and criticismWomen and literatureSouthern StatesHistory20th centuryAmerican fictionWomen authorsHistory and criticismAmerican fiction20th centuryHistory and criticismRace in literatureSouthern StatesIn literature20th century, southern writing, south, women, gender studies, femininity, feminism, literature, literary, community, miscegenation, race, racism, white patriarchy, whiteness, black writers, monstrosity, grotesque, trauma, unpaid labor, slavery, slaves, dirt, dirty, united states of america, usa, american, zora neale hurston, toni morrison, harper lee, carson mccullers, narrative, stories, alice walker, eudora welty, tradition, fiction, ownership, bodies, physicality.American fictionHistory and criticism.Women and literatureHistoryAmerican fictionWomen authorsHistory and criticism.American fictionHistory and criticism.Race in literature.810.99287Yaeger Patricia456851MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910819200303321Dirt and desire977336UNINA