Southscapes : geographies of race, region, and literature / Thadious M. Davis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Davis, Thadious M., 1944-

Series:

New directions in southern studies.

New directions in southern studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--African American authors.

American literature.

American literature--Southern States.

Geographical perception in literature.

African Americans--Race identity.

African Americans.

Place (Philosophy) in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (471 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina Press, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this innovative approach to southern literary cultures, Thadious Davis analyzes how black southern writers use their spatial location to articulate the vexed connections between society and environment, particularly under segregation and its legacies. Basing her analysis on texts by Ernest Gaines, Richard Wright, Alice Walker, Natasha Trethewey, Olympia Vernon, Brenda Marie Osbey, Sybil Kein, and others, Davis reveals how these writers reconstitute racial exclusion as creative black space, rather than a site of trauma and resistance. Utilizing the social and political separation epi

Contents:

Introduction. A map of the territory

Southscapes : race, region, and reclamation

Poverty and porches: controversial Mississippi

Power and profession : Richard Wright's Mississippi and its expatriate legacies

Politics and paysans : multicultural Louisiana and the space of the Crolit

Parishes and prisons : Ernest Gaines's Louisiana and its North Carolina kin space

Alice Walker matters : the fruits of gendered space.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

979-88-9313-002-7

979-88-908400-4-2

1-4696-0255-5

0-8078-6932-5

OCLC:

768082795