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Author Lewis, Nghana Tamu.

Title Entitled to the pedestal : place, race, and progress in white Southern women's writing, 1920-1945 / Nghana Tamu Lewis.

Publication Info. Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, 2007.

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 208 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-201) and index.
Contents The ladies and the myths : white Southern women's writing -- A white black writer : Julia Mood Peterkin -- A certain mental aberration : Gwen Bristow -- She'll take her stand : Caroline Gordon -- Paving the way : Willa Cather and Lillian Smith -- New beginnings : old sites of authority.
Summary Nghana Lewis offers a close reading of the works and private correspondences, essays, and lectures of five southern white women writers: Julia Peterkin, Gwen Bristow, Caroline Gordon, Willa Cather, and Lillian Smith. At the core of this work is a sophisticated reexamination of the myth of southern white womanhood.
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Reproduction Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL
System Details Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
Processing Action digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL
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Subject American literature -- Southern States -- History and criticism.
American literature.
Southern States.
American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
American literature -- Women authors.
American literature -- White authors -- History and criticism.
American literature -- White authors.
Women, White, in literature.
Women, White, in literature.
Southern States -- In literature.
Race in literature.
Race in literature.
Women and literature -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century.
Women and literature.
History.
Chronological Term 20th century
1900 - 1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Lewis, Nghana Tamu. Entitled to the pedestal. Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, 2007 9781587295294 1587295296 (DLC) 2006935963 (OCoLC)123242792
ISBN 9781587297328 (electronic book)
1587297329 (electronic book)
9781587295294 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
1587295296 (cloth ; alkaline paper)