Dirt and desire
Yaeger, Patricia.
Dirt and desire reconstructing southern women's writing, 1930-1990 / [electronic resource] : Dirt & desire Reconstructing southern women's writing, 1930-1990 Patricia Yaeger. - University of Chicago Press, c2000. - 1 online resource (xvii, 324 p.)
Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-312) and index.
Chapter Nine Studying the Wafflehouse Chain, or Dirt as Desire in Their Eyes Were Watching GodNotes; References; Index.
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 obsession with monstrosity and the grotesque and with the strange zones of contact between black and white, such as the daily trauma of underpaid labor and.
9780226944920 (electronic bk.) 0226944921 (electronic bk.)
American fiction--History and criticism.--Southern States
Women and literature--History--Southern States--20th century.
American fiction--Women authors--History and criticism.
American fiction--History and criticism.--20th century
Authors, American--Homes and haunts--Southern States.
Race in literature.
American fiction.
Authors, American.
Women and literature.
Roman américain--Histoire et critique.--États-Unis (Sud)
Femmes et littérature--Histoire--États-Unis (Sud)--20e siècle.
Roman américain--Histoire et critique.
Roman américain--Histoire et critique.--20e siècle
Race dans la littérature.
Écrits de femmes américains--Histoire et critique.
États-Unis (Sud) dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM--American--General.
Letterkunde.
Amerikaans.
Vrouwelijke auteurs.
Southern States--Intellectual life--1865-
Southern States--In literature.
ამერიკული ლიტერატურა ამერიკელი მწერალი ქალები ლიტერატურული კრიტიკა
Electronic books.
PS261 / .Y34 2000eb
810.9/9287/09750904
821.111- 055.2+821.111-95
Dirt and desire reconstructing southern women's writing, 1930-1990 / [electronic resource] : Dirt & desire Reconstructing southern women's writing, 1930-1990 Patricia Yaeger. - University of Chicago Press, c2000. - 1 online resource (xvii, 324 p.)
Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-312) and index.
Chapter Nine Studying the Wafflehouse Chain, or Dirt as Desire in Their Eyes Were Watching GodNotes; References; Index.
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 obsession with monstrosity and the grotesque and with the strange zones of contact between black and white, such as the daily trauma of underpaid labor and.
9780226944920 (electronic bk.) 0226944921 (electronic bk.)
American fiction--History and criticism.--Southern States
Women and literature--History--Southern States--20th century.
American fiction--Women authors--History and criticism.
American fiction--History and criticism.--20th century
Authors, American--Homes and haunts--Southern States.
Race in literature.
American fiction.
Authors, American.
Women and literature.
Roman américain--Histoire et critique.--États-Unis (Sud)
Femmes et littérature--Histoire--États-Unis (Sud)--20e siècle.
Roman américain--Histoire et critique.
Roman américain--Histoire et critique.--20e siècle
Race dans la littérature.
Écrits de femmes américains--Histoire et critique.
États-Unis (Sud) dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM--American--General.
Letterkunde.
Amerikaans.
Vrouwelijke auteurs.
Southern States--Intellectual life--1865-
Southern States--In literature.
ამერიკული ლიტერატურა ამერიკელი მწერალი ქალები ლიტერატურული კრიტიკა
Electronic books.
PS261 / .Y34 2000eb
810.9/9287/09750904
821.111- 055.2+821.111-95