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Title:

Storytelling, history, and the postmodern South / edited by Jason Phillips.

Publisher:

Louisiana State University Press,

Copyright Date:

2013

Description:

ix, 226 pages ; 23 cm.

Subject:

American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
Historical fiction, American--History and criticism.
Literature and history--Southern States--History--20th century.
Postmodernism (Literature)--Southern States.
Storytelling in literature.
Southern States--In literature.
Race in literature.
Autobiographical memory in literature.
Literatur.
Autobiographie.
Historische Literatur.
USA--Südstaaten.

Other Authors:

Phillips, Jason, 1973-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents:

Introduction: the liars at the Jung Hotel / Jason Phillips -- Will Percy and Lanterns on the levee revisited / Bertram Wyatt-Brown -- Rewriting American borders: the Southern gothic, religion, and U.S. historical narrative / Farrell O'Gorman -- The Jack burden of Southern history: Robert Penn Warren, C. Vann Woodward, and historical practice / Anne Marshall -- Marse Chan, new southerner: or, taking Thomas Nelson Page seriously / K. Stephen Prince -- Poison stories: a rereading of revolutionary Virginia's Baptist "revolt" / Jewel L. Spangler -- "And bid him bear a patriot's part": national and local perspectives on Confederate nationalism / Orville Vernon Burton and Ian Binnington -- Her life, my past: Rosina Downs and the proliferation of racial categories after the American Civil War / Jim Downs -- Abjection and white trash autobiography / David A. Davis -- The professional southerner and the twenty-first century / Robert Jackson.

Series:

Southern literary studies

ISBN:

0807150347 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780807150344 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)818658736

LCCN:

2012039372

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)