Southscapes
Subtitle: geographies of race, region, and literature
By: Thadious M. Davis
Series: New directions in southern studies
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Chapel Hill, NC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 458
ISBN-13: 9780807835210
Subjects: Geographical perception in literature; African American authors; Race identity; African Americans; American literature; Place (Philosophy) in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction. A map of the territory; title: Southscapes : race, region, and reclamation; title: Poverty and porches: controversial Mississippi; title: Power and profession : Richard Wright's Mississippi and its expatriate legacies; title: Politics and paysans : multicultural Louisiana and the space of the Crolit; title: Parishes and prisons : Ernest Gaines's Louisiana and its North Carolina kin space; title: Alice Walker matters : the fruits of gendered space.