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Title North and south : essays on gender, race, and region / edited by Christine DeVine and Mary Ann Wilson.

Publication Info. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012.

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Description 1 online resource (xxiv, 253 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-233) and index.
Contents Table of contents; list of illustrations; acknowledgements; introduction; editors and contributors; part i: britain; chapter one -- ""a noble knight and a mighty man"": palomydes's saracen chivalry in malory's the book of tristram de lyones; chapter two -- ""uncleaned corners"": dirt and the politics of place in elizabeth gaskell's north and south; chapter three -- ladies and gentlemen: british travelers and the antebellum american south; chapter four -- punch, fun, judy and the polar hero: comedy, gender and the british artic expedition 1875-76.
Chapter five -- bombs and blarney: re-imagining ireland in irish poetry and filmpart ii: america; chapter six -- across the great divide: grace king and her northern connections; chapter seven -- ""giving the lie"": exposing southern myth to northern audiences in charles chesnutt's the marrow of tradition; chapter eight -- ghosts and barely visible bodies: southern women in lee smith's black mountain breakdown; chapter nine -- ""no, just an alien"": gloria anzaldĂșa's new mestiza at ""home""; chapter ten -- overcoming the trauma of maternal loss in toni morrison's jazz.
Part iii: publishing -- the view from canadachapter eleven -- getting published in an academic journal: the view from canada; part iv: creating place in the twenty-first century; preface: remembering jeanne; chapter twelve -- highway 61 revisited again, or, gone south; bibliography; index.
Summary North and South is a multi-dimensional look at a prevailing theme in current discourse on the concept of borders. This collection of essays invites us to cross historical, regional, and disciplinary boundaries. The contributors consider a range of primary texts, use a number of critical approaches, and make some surprising connections. The borders created by the concepts of ""north"" and ""south"" provoke us to ask if the terms continue to represent real divisions, or if usage and habit have drai ...
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Subject North and south in literature.
North and south in literature.
Sex role in literature.
Sex role in literature.
Race in literature.
Race in literature.
Boundaries in literature.
Boundaries in literature.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author DeVine, Christine, 1947-
Wilson, Mary Ann, 1945-
Other Form: Print version: North and south 9781443840880 (DLC) 2012545952 (OCoLC)810533830
ISBN 9781443865005 (electronic book)
1443865001 (electronic book)
9781443840880
1443840882