20th century
A01=Patricia Yaeger
alice walker
american
Author_Patricia Yaeger
black writers
bodies
carson mccullers
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Category=JBSF1
community
dirt
dirty
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eq_biography-true-stories
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eq_society-politics
eudora welty
femininity
feminism
fiction
gender studies
grotesque
harper lee
literary
literature
miscegenation
monstrosity
narrative
ownership
physicality
race
racism
slavery
slaves
south
southern writing
stories
toni morrison
tradition
trauma
united states of america
unpaid labor
usa
white patriarchy
whiteness
women
zora neale hurston
Product details
- ISBN 9780226944906
- Weight: 567g
- Dimensions: 16 x 24mm
- Publication Date: 01 Jul 2000
- Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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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 partiarchy 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 obsession with monstrosity and the grotesque and with the strange zones of contact between black and white, such as the daily trauma of underpaid labour and the workings of racial and gender politics in the unnoticed yet all too familiar everyday. Yaeger also excavates a southern fascination with dirt -who owns it, who cleans it, and whose bodies are buried in it. Yaeger's theoretically informed readings of Zora Neale Hurston, Harper Lee, Carson McCullers, Toni Morrison, Flannery O'Connor, Alice Walker and Eudora Welty (among many others) explode the mystifications of southern literary tradition and forge a new path for southern studies.
