LEADER 03260nam 2200709 a 450 001 9910827116103321 005 20240514072127.0 010 $a979-88-908400-4-2 010 $a1-4696-0255-5 010 $a0-8078-6932-5 035 $a(CKB)2670000000131346 035 $a(EBL)819538 035 $a(OCoLC)768082795 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000565764 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11354502 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000565764 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10545324 035 $a(PQKB)11460209 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000245894 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse23365 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL819538 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10518909 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC819538 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000131346 100 $a20110609d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aSouthscapes $egeographies of race, region, and literature /$fThadious M. Davis 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aChapel Hill, N.C. $cUniversity of North Carolina Press$dc2011 215 $a1 online resource (471 p.) 225 1 $aNew directions in southern studies 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-4696-2195-9 311 $a0-8078-3521-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction. 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. 330 $aIn this innovative approach to southern literary cultures, Thadious Davis analyzes how black southern writers use their spatial location to articulate the vexed connections between society and environment, particularly under segregation and its legacies. Basing her analysis on texts by Ernest Gaines, Richard Wright, Alice Walker, Natasha Trethewey, Olympia Vernon, Brenda Marie Osbey, Sybil Kein, and others, Davis reveals how these writers reconstitute racial exclusion as creative black space, rather than a site of trauma and resistance. Utilizing the social and political separation epi 410 0$aNew directions in southern studies. 606 $aAmerican literature$xAfrican American authors 606 $aAmerican literature$zSouthern States 606 $aGeographical perception in literature 606 $aAfrican Americans$xRace identity 606 $aPlace (Philosophy) in literature 615 0$aAmerican literature$xAfrican American authors. 615 0$aAmerican literature 615 0$aGeographical perception in literature. 615 0$aAfrican Americans$xRace identity. 615 0$aPlace (Philosophy) in literature. 676 $a810.9/896073075 676 $a810.9896073075 700 $aDavis$b Thadious M.$f1944-$01597041 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910827116103321 996 $aSouthscapes$93918657 997 $aUNINA