LEADER 04290nam 2200709 450 001 9910459592803321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8131-5607-6 010 $a0-8131-6155-X 035 $a(CKB)3710000000334482 035 $a(EBL)1915685 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001403271 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12616195 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001403271 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11370253 035 $a(PQKB)10614869 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1915685 035 $a(OCoLC)900344963 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse44202 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1915685 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11007286 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL691408 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000334482 100 $a20150126h20002000 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 04$aThe world is our home $esociety and culture in contemporary Southern writing /$fedited by Jeffrey J. Folks and Nancy Summers Folks 210 1$aLexington, Kentucky :$cThe University Press of Kentucky,$d2000. 210 4$dİ2000 215 $a1 online resource (289 p.) 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a1-322-60126-7 311 $a0-8131-2166-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover; Title; Copyright; Contents; The World Is Our Home: An Introduction; Competing Histories: William Styron's The Confessions of Nat Turner and Sherley Ann Williams's Dessa Rose; New Narratives of Southern Manhood: Race, Masculinity, and Closure in Ernest Gaines's Fiction; The Snake and the Rosary: Violence and the Culture of Piety in Sheila Bosworth's Slow Poison; ""Because God's Eye Never Closes"": The Problem of Evil in Jayne Anne Phillips's Shelter; Gender and Justice: Alice Walker and the Sexual Politics of Civil Rights 327 $a""Trouble"" in Muskhogean County: The Social History of a Southern Community in the Fiction of Raymond Andrews" "The Politics of They"": Dorothy Allison's Bastard Out of Carolina as Critique of Class, Gender, and Sexual Ideologies; Transcendence in the House of the Dead: The Subversion Gaze of A Lesson Before Dying; Walker Percy's Lancelot Lamar: Defending the Hollow Core; Regeneration Through Nonviolence: Frederick Barthelme and the West; Making Peace with the (M)other; Toward Healing the Split: Lee Smith's Fancy Strut and Black Mountain Breakdown 327 $aStories Told by Their Survivors (and Other Sins of Memory): Survivor Guilt in Kaye Gibbons's Ellen Foster James Lee Burke's Dave Robicheaux Novels; The Physical Hunger for the Spiritual: Southern Religious Experience in the Plays of Horton Foote; Richard Ford: The Postmodern Exile and the Vanishing South; Contributors; Index; 330 $aSince the early 1970's southern fiction has been increasingly attentive to social issues, including the continuing struggles for racial justice and gender equality, the loss of a sense of social community, and the decline of a coherent regional identity. The essays in The World Is Our Home focus on writers who have explicitly addressed social and cultural issues in their fiction and drama, including Dorothy Allison, Horton Foote, Ernest J. Gaines, Jill McCorkle, Walker Percy, Lee Smith, William Styron, Alice Walker, and many others. The contributors provide valuable insights into the transform... 606 $aAmerican literature$zSouthern States$xHistory and criticism 606 $aLiterature and society$zSouthern States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aAuthors, American$xHomes and haunts$zSouthern States 606 $aSocial problems in literature 607 $aSouthern States$xIntellectual life$y1865- 607 $aSouthern States$xIn literature 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aLiterature and society$xHistory 615 0$aAuthors, American$xHomes and haunts 615 0$aSocial problems in literature. 676 $a810.9/975 702 $aFolks$b Jeffrey J$g(Jeffrey Jay),$f1948- 702 $aFolks$b Nancy Summers$f1946- 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910459592803321 996 $aThe world is our home$92480490 997 $aUNINA