| Description |
xxviii, 220 pages ; 25 cm. |
| Series |
Contributions to the study of American literature,
1092-6356 ;
no. 8
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Contributions to the study of American literature ; no. 8.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-206) and index. |
| Contents |
Foreword : Acts of translation / Moira Crone -- Introduction : A new generation of Louisiana writers / Suzanne Disheroon Green and Lisa Abney -- Living on the edge in Rebecca Wells's Little altars everywhere / Mary Ann Wilson -- Food and foodways in Michael Lee West's She flew the coop : a novel concerning life, death, sex, and recipes in Limoges, Louisiana / Lisa Abney -- New Orleans mothers and sons : familial relationships in John Kennedy Toole's The neon bible / Patricia A. Threatt -- "This is the kingfish" : Huey Long's autobiography, Every man a king / Philip Dubuisson Castille -- Locating community in contemporary Southern fiction : a cultural analysis of Robert Olen Butler's A good scent from a strange mountain / Erin E. Campbell Cash -- The spell of the swampland : the tales of Shirley Ann Grau / Sally B. Blanton -- "All our stories begin here" : heroism and sense of place in James Lee Burke's Dave Robicheaux mystery series / Thomas Easterling -- From Huey Long to Willie Stark : Louisiana politics in All the king's men / Harold Woodell -- Postmodernism goes south : John Dufresne's Louisiana power and light / David J. Caudle -- Fiction is my religion : conversations with John Dufresne / Kevin Blaine Bell and David J. Caudle -- Invoking generational demons : orality and Catholicism in The witching hour / Kenneth Price and Shelby Rosiak -- The complicated Catholicism of Andre Dubus / Michael Cocchiarale -- Lady of the earth and moon : goddess imagery and the Ya-Yas / Lori Rowlett -- "Black cat bone and snake wisdom" : New Orleanian hoodoo, Haitian voodoo, and rereading Hurston's Their eyes were watching God / Pamela Glenn Menke -- Awakening the "essence of blue" : the emerging Southern women of Kate Chopin and Moira Crone / Suzanne Disheroon Green -- Equality for African-American (wo)men : quests for masculinity in Ernest Gaines's Bloodline / Laurie Champion -- "Against regulations" : Southern women in the fiction of Rebecca Wells / Patricia M. Gantt -- Ellen Gilchrist's heroines : the scourge of New Orleans / Mary A. McCay -- Rape and redemption : the revision of "colored" female chastity in Pauline Hopkin's Contending forces and Anne Rice's The feast of all saints / Amy Anastasia Birge -- Bloodlines : Creoles of color and identity in the fiction of Ernest Gaines / Keith Byerman. |
| Subject |
American fiction -- Louisiana -- History and criticism.
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American fiction. |
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Louisiana. |
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American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Authors, American -- Homes and haunts -- Louisiana.
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Authors, American -- Homes and haunts. |
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Authors, American. |
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Louisiana -- Intellectual life.
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Intellectual life. |
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Louisiana -- In literature.
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| Added Author |
Green, Suzanne Disheroon, 1963-
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Abney, Lisa, 1964-
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| ISBN |
0313313660 alkaline paper |
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