Dirt and Desire Reconstructing Southern Women's Writing, 1930-1990

Name: Dirt and Desire Reconstructing Southern Women's Writing, 1930-1990
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ISBN: 9780226944913

ISBN-10: 0226944913

ISBN-13: 9780226944913

Edition: 2000

Authors: Patricia Yaeger

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The story of southern writing—the Dixie Limited, if you will—runs along an iron path: an official narrative of a literature about community, about place and the past, about miscegenation, white patriarchy, and the epic of race. Patricia Yaeger dynamites the rails, providing an entirely new set of categories through which to understand southern literature and culture.For Yaeger, works by black and white southern women writers reveal a shared obsession with monstrosity and the grotesque and with the strange zones of contact between black and white, such as the daily trauma of underpaid labor and the workings of racial and gender politics in the unnoticed yet all too familiar everyday. Yaeger…

Book details

List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 7/1/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 342
Size: 0.64" wide x 0.89" long x 0.08" tall
Weight: 0.902
Language: English



Prologue



Southern Women Writers: A Confederacy of Water Moccasins



Dynamiting the Rails: Desegregating Southern Literary Studies



"And Every Baby. . . Was Floating Round in the Water, Drowned": Throwaway Bodies in Southern Fiction



Race and the Cloud of Unknowing



Beyond the Hummingbird: Southern Gargantuas



Politics in the Kitchen: Roosevelt, McCullers, and Surrealist History



White Objects, Black Ownership: Object Politics in Southern Fiction



The Body as Testimony



Studying the Wafflehouse Chain, or Dirt as Desire inTheir Eyes Were Watching God


Notes


References


Index