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Dirt and desire [electronic resource] : reconstructing southern women's writing, 1930-1990 / Patricia Yaeger.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2000.Description: 1 online resource (xvii, 324 p.)ISBN:
  • 9780226944920 (electronic bk.)
  • 0226944921 (electronic bk.)
Other title:
  • Dirt & desire
  • Reconstructing southern women's writing, 1930-1990
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Dirt and desire.DDC classification:
  • 810.9/9287/09750904 22
LOC classification:
  • PS261 .Y34 2000eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Chapter Nine Studying the Wafflehouse Chain, or Dirt as Desire in Their Eyes Were Watching GodNotes; References; Index.
Summary: 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.
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ელ.რესურსი ელ.რესურსი ეროვნული სამეცნიერო ბიბლიოთეკა 1 821.111- 055.2+821.111-95 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available

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.

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