Reading for the body : the recalcitrant materiality of Southern fiction, 1893-1985 / Jay Watson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Watson, Jay.

Series:

New southern studies.

The new southern studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

American fiction.

American literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (426 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Athens : University of Georgia Press, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Jay Watson argues that southern literary studies has been overidealized and dominated by intellectual history for too long. In Reading for the Body, he calls for the field to be rematerialized and grounded in an awareness of the human body as the site where ideas, including ideas about the U.S. South itself, ultimately happen.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction. Recalcitrant Materialities

Part One. Bodily Attributes

One. Manual Discourse: A Problem in Mark Twain's America

Two. Listening for Zora: Voice, Body, and the Mediat(iz)ed Modernism of Jonah's Gourd Vine and Moses, Man of the Mountain

Three. Writing Blood: The Art of the Literal in William Faulkner's Light in August

Part Two. Embodied Experiences

Four. Richard Wright's Parables of Pain: Uncle Tom's Children and the Making and Unmaking of a Southern Black World

Five. Difficult Embodiment: Coming of Age in Katherine Anne Porter's Miranda Stories

Six. Reading War on the Body: The Example of Bobbie Ann Mason's In Country

Coda. Overreading (for) the Body: Walker Percy's Cautionary Tale

Notes

Works Cited

Index

A

B

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D

E

F

G

H

I

J

K

L

M

N

O

P

R

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U

V

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Y

Z.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613662712

9781280685774

1280685778

9780820343761

0820343765

OCLC:

795128122