A Southern Weave of Women: Fiction of the Contemporary South - Hardcover

Tate, Linda

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0820316148 ISBN 13: 9780820316147

Verlag: University of Georgia Press, 1994

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Since 1980 the South of the US has experienced a tremendous resurgence in fiction by women - black and white, rich and poor, from the deep South and from Appalachia. This revival marks a critical stage in the development of southern literature, for it offers a revisionary, multicultural, feminist, yet still traditionally southern perspective. "A Southern Weave of Women" is a sustained treatment of the generation of women writers who came of age in the post-World War II South which situates southern literature fully within a multicultural context. Linda Tate considers the ways in which the women writers of the present generation reflect, expand, transform, and redefine long-standing notions of regional culture and womanhood. Focusing on women who suggest the regional, class, and ethnic diversity of contemporary southern writing, Tate discusses such writers as Jill McCorkle, Shay Youngblood, Ellen Douglas, Dori Sanders, Rita Mae Brown, Lee Smith, Alice Walker, Bobbie Ann Mason, Linda Beatrice Brown and Kaye Gibbons. As these women carve out new definitions of southern womanhood, Tate contends, they also look for ways to retain what is valuable about the past conceptions while seeking to revise and expand the traditional roles. In doing so, they reconsider their relationships to home, family and other southern women; to issues of race and class in the South; to women's obscured role in the region's past; and to the southern land itself. Situating the works of these writers within a larger social context, Tate examines their misinterpretation by male filmmakers and lauds the corrective role that small and independent presses have played in providing a vehicle through which myopic male visions of southern women might be countered. In telling the stories of contemporary southern women and of their mothers and grandmothers, these writers create space for women who have previously been excluded from southern literature.

Biografía del autor:

Linda Tate is an assistant professor of English at Shepherd College in West Virginia.

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• Verlag: University of Georgia Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0820316148
• ISBN 13: 9780820316147
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 277