Dirt and Desire: Reconstructing Southern Women's Writing, 1930-1990

by Patricia Yaeger

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The 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...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0226944913

ISBN13:9780226944913

Release Date:July 2000

Publisher:University of Chicago Press

Length:342 Pages

Weight:1.05 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 6.1" x 9.0"

Related Subjects

American Literature Classics Gender Studies History & Criticism Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Literature Literature & Fiction Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Social Sciences

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