Rewriting the South : history and fiction / edited by Lothar Hönnighausen and Valeria Gennaro Lerda in collaboration with Christoph Irmscher and Simon Ward.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hönnighausen, Lothar.

Gennaro Lerda, Valeria.

Series:

Transatlantic perspectives ; 3.

Transatlantic perspectives ; 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--Southern States--History and criticism.

American literature.

Southern States.

Physical Description:

xxii, 438 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Tübingen : Franke Verlag, [1993]

Contents:

Invention of Southern tradition / C.R. Wilson

Women in the South / A.F. Scott

Gender and the profession of letters in the South / S.V. Donaldson

History and fiction / F.L. Pitavy

Creating the history of decline / J.T. Kirby

Rewriting the post-bellum plantation South / V.G. Lerda

"The eye composes itself" / C. Daufenbach

William Bartram's travels / C.H. Adams

1835: the first Annus Mirabilis of Southern fiction / J.N. Gretlund

Southern sojourn / C. Juncker

On the writing of history in the Old South / M. O'Brien

Definitions of Southern identity in the Civil War novels of John Esten Cooke / U. Brumm

Sam Watkins and the fictionality of fact / M.T. Inge

Ellen Glasgow's The Battle Ground / D.M. Scura

(cont.) Circle of the Charleston Poetry Society and the creation of the image of the Carolina Lowcountry / W.B. Edgar

Sacrifice of history in the new criticism of Cleanth Brooks / J.T. Matthews

Farm security administration photographic project's reinvention of the Southern poor in the 1930s / S. Kidd

Past as the tense of poetry / U. Riese

Fascism, the Democratic revival, and the Southern writer / R.H. Brinkmeyer, Jr.

"Mind" in the mainstream / J.C. Cobb

Modernization of the South / T. Badger

Southern history, American fiction / D.T. Carter

History as autobiography / R. Gray

"He was talking about Truth" / D. Ford

Faulkner's cosmos and the incarnation of history in Light in August / T.L. McHaney

Faulkner rewriting the Indian removal / L. Hönnighausen

(cont.) Novelist as historian in Requiem for a Nun / A. Bleikasten

Walker Percy's South(s) / L.A. Lawson

Within and beyond the Southern tradition / A. Heller

"The inexorable plot of racism" / E.H. Oleksy

Margaret Walker's Jubilee / F. Hajek

Historical consciousness, aesthetics and the experimental Southern novel / G. Hoffmann

Upon being Southernovelized / N. Polk.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

"The present volume is the outcome of an international symposium hosted by the North American Program of the University of Bonn in June 1991." -- Intro.

ISBN:

3772020038

OCLC:

30111307