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The southern state of mind / edited by Jan Nordby Gretlund, with a new afterword by the editor.

Title
The southern state of mind / edited by Jan Nordby Gretlund, with a new afterword by the editor.
Publication
Columbia : University of South Carolina Press, c2010

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Additional Authors
Gretlund, Jan Nordby.
Description
xvii, 235 p.; 23 cm.
Subject
  • 1900-1999
  • American literature > Southern States > History and criticism
  • Southern States > Civilization > 20th century
Genre/Form
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Note
  • Originally published: 1999.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Editor's introduction : present states of Southern mind -- Part. I. The biracial South. The myth of the biracial South / Charles Reagan Wilson -- The rise and fall of biracial politics in the South / Tony Badger -- After Jim Crow : civil rights as civil wrongs / Paul M. Gaston -- A world turned upside down : Southern politics at the end of the twentieth century / Dan Carter -- Part II. The changing state of mind. Recorded and unrecorded histories : recent Southern writing and social change / Richard Gray -- The Southern heritage and the semiotics of consumer culture / Lothar Hönninghausen -- Beyond the tumult and the shouting : Black and White in South Carolina in the 1990s / Walter Edgar -- Refighting old wars : race relations and masculine conventions in fiction by Larry Brown and Madison Smarrt Bell / Suzanne Jones -- "After freedom" : Blacks and Whites in the 1990s : the facts and the fiction / Dori Sanders -- Part III. Reconstructing Southern identity. "We ain't white trash no more" : Southern whites and the reconstruction of Southern identity / James C. Cobb -- A native son led the way : Jimmy Carter and the modern New South / Russell Duncan -- Let us know praise famous women : Kaye Gibbons's Song for a deceased mother / François Pitavy -- Lies as the structural element in the fiction of Lewis Nordan / Marcel Arbeit -- Dancers and the angels : communication in the fiction of Josephine Humphreys / Danièle Pitavy-Souques -- Part IV. Looking West and back. Westward, ho! : contemporary Southern writing and the American West / Robert H. Brinkmeyer, Jr. -- Post-reconstruction periods compared : 1890s and 1990s / C. Vann Woodward.
ISBN
  • 1570038996
  • 9781570038990
OCLC
  • 501481910
  • SCSB-11724577
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Harvard Library