A Man and a Woman
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Another Woman
Author_Margaret D. Bauer
Bug Man
Cajuns
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Dead-end job
Death
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Fiction
G. (novel)
Grandparent
His Family
Impossibility
Mark Twain
Mrs.
Page 23
Short story
Tim Gautreaux
Unnatural death
Walker Percy
Warfare
Product details
- ISBN 9781570038594
- Weight: 456g
- Dimensions: 129 x 177mm
- Publication Date: 13 Jan 2010
- Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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This book offers an introduction to the works of a Cajun writer who finds optimism in his blue-collar tales. Margaret Donovan Bauer presents the first book-length study of the Louisiana storyteller, who injects a seldom heard Cajun voice into Southern literature and offers a rare optimistic vision among other contemporary writers of the hardscrabble American South. Bauer surveys Tim Gautreaux's three novels - ""The Next Step in the Dance"", ""The Clearing, and ""The Missing"" - and two collections of short fiction - ""Same Place, Same Things"" and ""Welding with Children"" - to identify his major themes, character types, and structures. She views his chief contribution to Southern letters to be an authentic insider's view of Cajun culture, one resulting in a skillful, realistic, and sympathetic vision of historical and contemporary Acadiana in flux. Bauer addresses how Gautreaux's hopeful vision distinguishes him from other contemporary writers of the blue-collar South. She views Gautreaux's poor white protagonists as action-oriented characters who, while trapped by circumstances, still strive to affect positive change in their lives.
Louisiana native Margaret Donovan Bauer is a professor of English at East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina, where she was named the first Ralph Hardee Rives Chair of Southern Literature.
