Feminine sense in Southern memoir : Smith, Glasgow, Welty, Hellman, Porter, and Hurston
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PS261 .B67 1993
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Subjects
LC Subjects
American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
American prose literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
American prose literature -- History and criticism.
American prose literature -- Southern States -- History and criticism.
American prose literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
Authors, American -- Homes and haunts -- Southern States.
Autobiography -- Women authors.
Femininity in literature.
Southern States -- In literature.
Women -- Southern States -- Intellectual life.
Women and literature -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century.
Women authors, American -- Biography -- History and criticism.
Women authors, American -- Southern States -- Biography -- History and criticism.
American prose literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
American prose literature -- History and criticism.
American prose literature -- Southern States -- History and criticism.
American prose literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
Authors, American -- Homes and haunts -- Southern States.
Autobiography -- Women authors.
Femininity in literature.
Southern States -- In literature.
Women -- Southern States -- Intellectual life.
Women and literature -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century.
Women authors, American -- Biography -- History and criticism.
Women authors, American -- Southern States -- Biography -- History and criticism.
OCLC Fast Subjects
American literature -- Women authors
American prose literature
American prose literature -- Women authors
Authors, American -- Homes and haunts
Autobiography -- Women authors
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Femininity in literature
History
Literature
Southern States
Women -- Intellectual life
Women and literature
Women authors, American
Women authors, American -- Biography
American prose literature
American prose literature -- Women authors
Authors, American -- Homes and haunts
Autobiography -- Women authors
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Femininity in literature
History
Literature
Southern States
Women -- Intellectual life
Women and literature
Women authors, American
Women authors, American -- Biography
Other Subjects
Amerikaans.
Autobiografieën.
Autobiografische Literatur
Fallstudiensammlung
Fallstudiensammlung.
Femmes -- États-Unis (Sud) -- Vie intellectuelle.
Femmes et littérature -- États-Unis (Sud) -- Histoire -- 20e siècle.
Frau
Frauenliteratur
Féminité dans la littérature.
Gender identity.
Hurston, Zora Neale -- Critique et interprétation.
Letterkunde.
Prose américaine -- 20e siècle -- Histoire et critique.
Prose américaine -- Histoire et critique.
Prose américaine -- États-Unis (Sud) -- Histoire et critique.
USA -- Südstaaten
Vrouwelijke auteurs.
Welty.
Women.
Écrits de femmes américains -- Histoire et critique.
Écrits de femmes autobiographiques.
Écrivaines américaines -- Biographies -- Histoire et critique.
Écrivaines américaines -- États-Unis (Sud) -- Biographies -- Histoire et critique.
Écrivains américains -- Résidences et lieux familiers -- États-Unis (Sud)
États-Unis (Sud) -- Dans la littérature.
États-Unis (Sud) dans la littérature.
Autobiografieën.
Autobiografische Literatur
Fallstudiensammlung
Fallstudiensammlung.
Femmes -- États-Unis (Sud) -- Vie intellectuelle.
Femmes et littérature -- États-Unis (Sud) -- Histoire -- 20e siècle.
Frau
Frauenliteratur
Féminité dans la littérature.
Gender identity.
Hurston, Zora Neale -- Critique et interprétation.
Letterkunde.
Prose américaine -- 20e siècle -- Histoire et critique.
Prose américaine -- Histoire et critique.
Prose américaine -- États-Unis (Sud) -- Histoire et critique.
USA -- Südstaaten
Vrouwelijke auteurs.
Welty.
Women.
Écrits de femmes américains -- Histoire et critique.
Écrits de femmes autobiographiques.
Écrivaines américaines -- Biographies -- Histoire et critique.
Écrivaines américaines -- États-Unis (Sud) -- Biographies -- Histoire et critique.
Écrivains américains -- Résidences et lieux familiers -- États-Unis (Sud)
États-Unis (Sud) -- Dans la littérature.
États-Unis (Sud) dans la littérature.
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Book
Physical Desc
xii, 293 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-280) and index.
Description
Lillian Smith, Ellen Glasgow, Eudora Welty, Lillian Hellman, Katherine Anne Porter, and Zora Neale Hurston are distinctly varying and individual writers of the American South whose work is identified with the Southern Literary Renaissance. This intertextual study assesses their autobiographical writings and their intellectual stature as modern women of letters. It is the first to include these writers in the socio-history of modern southern feminism and the first to.
Description
Group them in the discourse of modern American liberalism. In the confessional tract Killers of the Dream (1949, 1961) Smith's focus upon ethics, racism, and sexism rather than upon conventional southern themes sharply disrupts the ideology of conservative forces in the mainstream of southern literary criticism. In Feminine Sense in Southern Memoir dominant themes from Smith's autobiography are synthesized as other liberal feminine voices in the chorus of southern.
Description
Memoirs examine norms of gender, problems of race, and patriarchal power structures. Ellen Glasgow's The Woman Within (1954) and Eudora Welty's One Writer's Beginnings (1984) center on the woman writer's inner life and demonstrate the legitimacy of making this life the object of public attention. Lillian Hellman's Scoundrel Time (1976) and Katherine Anne Porter's The Never-Ending Wrong (1977) define the individual in conflict with reactionary forces in modern America. In.
Description
Dust Tracks on a Road (1942, 1984) Zora Neale Hurston connects the problems of gender, region, nation, and race. By stressing the significance of a liberal tradition in southern women's autobiographical writings, Feminine Sense in Southern Memoir reconceptualizes the role of the southern woman of letters and her contributions to the literature of the modern South.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Brantley, W. (1993). Feminine sense in Southern memoir: Smith, Glasgow, Welty, Hellman, Porter, and Hurston . University Press of Mississippi.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Brantley, Will. 1993. Feminine Sense in Southern Memoir: Smith, Glasgow, Welty, Hellman, Porter, and Hurston. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Brantley, Will. Feminine Sense in Southern Memoir: Smith, Glasgow, Welty, Hellman, Porter, and Hurston Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1993.
Harvard Citation (style guide)Brantley, W. (1993). Feminine sense in southern memoir: smith, glasgow, welty, hellman, porter, and hurston. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Brantley, Will. Feminine Sense in Southern Memoir: Smith, Glasgow, Welty, Hellman, Porter, and Hurston University Press of Mississippi, 1993.
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