03326nam 2200733 a 450 991097461630332120240514072127.0979-88-9313-002-7979-88-908400-4-21-4696-0255-50-8078-6932-5(CKB)2670000000131346(EBL)819538(OCoLC)768082795(SSID)ssj0000565764(PQKBManifestationID)11354502(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000565764(PQKBWorkID)10545324(PQKB)11460209(StDuBDS)EDZ0000245894(MdBmJHUP)muse23365(Au-PeEL)EBL819538(CaPaEBR)ebr10518909(Perlego)537898(MiAaPQ)EBC819538(EXLCZ)99267000000013134620110609d2011 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrSouthscapes geographies of race, region, and literature /Thadious M. Davis1st ed.Chapel Hill, N.C. University of North Carolina Pressc20111 online resource (471 p.)New directions in southern studiesDescription based upon print version of record.1-4696-2195-9 0-8078-3521-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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 epiNew directions in southern studies.American literatureAfrican American authorsAmerican literatureSouthern StatesGeographical perception in literatureAfrican AmericansRace identityPlace (Philosophy) in literatureAmerican literatureAfrican American authors.American literatureGeographical perception in literature.African AmericansRace identity.Place (Philosophy) in literature.810.9/896073075810.9896073075Davis Thadious M.1944-1855392MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910974616303321Southscapes4453531UNINA