LEADER 04339nam 2200721Ia 450 001 9910454027003321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-07029-0 010 $a9786612070297 010 $a0-226-94492-1 024 7 $a10.7208/9780226944920 035 $a(CKB)1000000000725010 035 $a(EBL)432317 035 $a(OCoLC)368762807 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000139512 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11154896 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000139512 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10010130 035 $a(PQKB)10084161 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC432317 035 $a(DE-B1597)535516 035 $a(OCoLC)1055474170 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780226944920 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL432317 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10286145 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL207029 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000725010 100 $a19991217d2000 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aDirt and desire$b[electronic resource] $ereconstructing southern women's writing, 1930-1990 /$fPatricia Yaeger 210 $aChicago $cUniversity of Chicago Press$d2000 215 $a1 online resource (344 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-226-94491-3 311 $a0-226-94490-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tPrologue -- $tChapter One Southern Women Writers: A Confederacy of Water Moccasins -- $tChapter Two. Dynamiting the Rails: Desegregating Southern Literary Studies -- $tChapter Three. "And Every Baby ... Was Floating Round in the Water, Drowned": Throwaway Bodies in Southern Fiction -- $tChapter Four. Race and the Cloud of Unknowing -- $tChapter Five. Beyond the Hummingbird: Southern Gargantuas -- $tChapter Six. Politics in the Kitchen: Roosevelt, McCullers, and Surrealist History -- $tChapter Seven. White Objects, Black Ownership: Object Politics in Southern Fiction -- $tChapter Eight. The Body as Testimony -- $tChapter Nine. Studying the Waffle house Chain, or Dirt as Desire in Their Eyes Were Watching God -- $tNotes -- $tReferences -- $tIndex 330 $aThe 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. 606 $aAmerican fiction$zSouthern States$xHistory and criticism 606 $aWomen and literature$zSouthern States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aAmerican fiction$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAmerican fiction$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aRace in literature 607 $aSouthern States$xIn literature 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aAmerican fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aWomen and literature$xHistory 615 0$aAmerican fiction$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAmerican fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aRace in literature. 676 $a810.99287 700 $aYaeger$b Patricia$0456851 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910454027003321 996 $aDirt and desire$9977336 997 $aUNINA