Jolene Hubbs (University of Alabama)

Class, Whiteness, and Southern Literature

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores connections between narrative forms and social history. It will appeal to readers interested in twentieth-century U.S. literature, race, and social class.

Produktdetails

• Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Dezember 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 464g
• ISBN-13: 9781009250658
• ISBN-10: 1009250655
• Artikelnr.: 64671892

Autorenporträt

Jolene Hubbs is an associate professor of American Studies at the University of Alabama. She studies the literature and culture of the US South.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Poor White Southerners in the American Imaginary
1. Riffraff and Half-Strainers: Charles W. Chesnutt and Regionalism
2. Slow, Sweating, Stinking Bumpkins: William Faulkner and Modernism
3. Civil Rights and Uncivil Whites: Flannery O'Connor and Southern Women's Midcentury Writing
4. Hungry Women and Horny Men: Dorothy Allison, Barbara Robinette Moss, and Grit Lit
Coda.