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1 online resource (xvii, 324 pages) |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-312) and index. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
American fiction -- Southern States -- History and criticism.
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American fiction. |
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Southern States. |
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Women and literature -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century.
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Women and literature. |
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History. |
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20th century |
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American fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
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American fiction -- Women authors. |
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American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Authors, American -- Homes and haunts -- Southern States.
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Authors, American -- Homes and haunts. |
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Southern States -- Intellectual life -- 1865-
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Intellectual life. |
| Chronological Term |
1865- |
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Southern States -- In literature.
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Race in literature.
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Race in literature. |
| Chronological Term |
Since 1865 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| Added Title |
Dirt & desire |
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Reconstructing southern women's writing, 1930-1990 |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Yaeger, Patricia. Dirt and desire. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©2000 0226944905 9780226944906 (DLC) 99085969 (OCoLC)43227328 |
| ISBN |
9780226944920 (electronic book) |
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0226944921 (electronic book) |
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9780226944906 (alkaline paper) |
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0226944905 (alkaline paper) |
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9780226944913 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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0226944913 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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