After Southern modernism : fiction of the contemporary South / / Matthew Guinn

• Autore: Guinn Matthew
• Pubblicazione: Jackson [Miss.], : University Press of Mississippi, 2000
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (233 p.)
• Disciplina: 813/.5409975
• Soggetto topico: American fiction - Southern States - History and criticism; American fiction - 20th century - History and criticism; Postmodernism (Literature) - Southern States
• Soggetto geografico: Southern States Intellectual life 1865-; Southern States In literature
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-198) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- Arcady Revisited: The Poor South of Harry Crews and Dorothy Allison -- The New Naturalism of Larry Brown -- Mediation, Interpolation: Bobbie Ann Mason and Kaye Gibbons -- Atavism and the Exploded Metanarrative: Cormac McCarthy's Journey to Mythoclasm -- Into the Suburbs: Richard Ford's Sportswriter as Postsouthern Expatriate -- Signifyin(g) in the South: Randall Kenan -- Barry Hannah and the "Open Field" of Southern History -- Conclusion: No Jeremiad -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.
• Sommario/riassunto: A provocative reckoning of the challenging new direction southern literature has taken in the works of nine authors Download Plain Text version The literature of the contemporary South might best be understood for its discontinuity with the literary past. At odds with traditions of the Southern Renascence, southern literature of today sharply refutes the Nashville Agrarians and shares few of Faulkner's and Welty's concerns about place, community, and history. This sweeping study of the literary South's new direction focuses on nine well established writers who, by breaking away from the firmly ensconced myths, have emerged as an iconoclastic generation- -- Harry Crews, Dorothy Allison, Bobbie Ann Mason, Larry Brown, Kaye Gibbons, Randall Kenan, Richard Ford, Cormac McCarthy, and Barry Hannah. Resisting the modernist methods of the past, they have established their own postmodern ground beyond the shadow of their predecessors. This shift in authorial perspective is a significant indicator of the future of southern writing. Crews's seminal role as a ground-breaking "poor white" author, Mason's and Crews's portrayals of rural life, and Allison's and Brown's frank portrayals of the lower class pose a challenge to traditional depictions of the South. The dissenting voices of Gibbons and Kenan, who focus on gender, race, and sexuality, create fiction that is at once identifiably "southern" and also distinctly subversive. Gibbons's iconoclastic stance toward patriarchy, like the outsider's critique of community found in Kenan's work, proffers a portrait of the South unprecedented in the region's literature. Ford, McCarthy, and Hannah each approach the South's traditional notions of history and community with new irreverence and treat familiar southern topics in a distinctly postmodern manner. Whether through Ford's generic consumer landscape, the haunted netherworld of McCarthy's southern novels, or Hannah's riotous burlesque of the Civil War, these authors assail the philosophical and cultural foundations from which the Southern Renascence arose. Challenging the conventional conceptions of the southern canon, this is a provocative and innovative contribution to the region's literary study. Matthew Guinn, formerly an instructor of English at the University of Mississippi, has published articles on southern literature in "Southern Quarterly," "South Atlantic Review," and "Resources for American Literary Study."
• Titolo autorizzato: After Southern modernism
• ISBN: 1-282-82133-4; 9786612821332; 1-60473-889-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910962625803321
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