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9780813121666

The World Is Our Home: Society and Culture in Contemporary Southern Writing

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  • ISBN13:

    9780813121666

  • ISBN10:

    0813121663

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2000-07-20
  • Publisher: Univ Pr of Kentucky
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Table of Contents

The World Is Our Home: An Introduction
1(12)
Jeffrey J. Folks
Nancy Summers Folks
Competing Histories: William Styron's The Confessions of Nat Turner and Sherley Ann Williams's Dessa Rose
12(17)
Susan Goodman
New Narratives of Southern Manhood: Race, Masculinity, and Closure in Ernest Gaines's Fiction
29(24)
Suzanne W. Jones
The Snake and the Rosary: Violence and the Culture of Piety in Sheila Bosworth's Slow Poison
53(20)
Gary M. Ciuba
``Because God's Eye Never Closes'': The Problem of Evil in Jayne Anne Phillips's Shelter
73(20)
James Grove
Gender and Justice: Alice Walker and the Sexual Politics of Civil Rights
93(14)
Keith Byerman
``Trouble'' in Muskhogean County: The Social History of a Southern Community in the Fiction of Raymond Andrews
107(10)
Jeffrey J. Folks
``The Politics of They'': Dorothy Allison's Bastard Out of Carolina as Critique of Class, Gender, and Sexual Ideologies
117(25)
Moira P. Baker
Transcendence in the House of the Dead: The Subversion Gaze of A Lesson Before Dying
142(21)
John Lowe
Walker Percy's Lancelot Lamar: Defending the Hollow Core
163(13)
Julius Raper
Regeneration Through Nonviolence: Frederick Barthelme and the West
176(10)
Robert H. Brinkmeyer Jr.
Making Peace with the (M)other
186(15)
Barbara Bennett
Toward Healing the Split: Lee Smith's Fancy Strut and Black Mountain Breakdown
201(19)
Linda J. Byrd
Stories Told by Their Survivors (and Other Sins of Memory): Survivor Guilt in Kaye Gibbons's Ellen Foster
220(12)
Linda Watts
James Lee Burke's Dave Robicheaux Novels
232(12)
Frank W. Shelton
The Physical Hunger for the Spiritual: Southern Religious Experience in the Plays of Horton Foote
244(15)
Gerald C. Wood
Richard Ford: The Postmodern Exile and the Vanishing South
259(14)
Joanna Price
Contributors 273(2)
Index 275

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