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| Material Type: | Government publication, State or province government publication |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Michael Kreyling |
| ISBN: | 1578060443 9781578060443 1578060451 9781578060450 |
| OCLC Number: | 37721512 |
| Description: | xviii, 200 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | The South of the agrarians -- Richard Weaver and the outline of Southern literary history -- Race, literature, and history in the work of Louis D. Rubin, Jr. -- Southern literature anthologies and the invention of the South -- African-American writers and Southern literary history -- Southern women writers and the Quentin thesis -- Southern writing under the influence of William Faulkner -- Parody and postsouthernness -- The invention of the South and the culture war. |
| Responsibility: | Michael Kreyling. |
Abstract:
In Inventing Southern Literature Michael Kreyling casts a penetrating ray upon the traditional canon of southern literature and questions the modes by which it was created. He finds that it was, indeed, an invention rather than a creation. From their heyday to the present, Kreyling investigates the historical conditions under which literary and cultural critics have invented "the South" and how they have chosen its representations. Through his study of these choices, Kreyling argues that interested groups have shaped meanings that preserve "a South" as "the South."
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