Haunted bodies
Subtitle: gender and southern texts
By: edited by Anne Goodwyn Jones and Susan V. Donaldson.
Contributors: Jones, Anne Goodwyn.; Donaldson, Susan Van D'Elden, 1951-
Series: The American South series
Publisher: University Press of Virginia; University of Virginia Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Charlottesville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 533
Subjects: American literature -- Southern States -- History and criticism; Authors, American -- Homes and haunts -- Southern States; Literature and society -- Southern States; Gender identity in literature; Body, Human, in literature; Race in literature; Sex in literature; Southern States -- Intellectual life; Southern States -- Historiography; Southern States -- In literature; Southern States -- Civilization
Description: In Haunted Bodies, Anne Goodwyn Jones and Susan V. Donaldson have brought together some of our most highly regarded southern historians and literary critics to consider race, gender, and texts through three centuries and from a wealth of vantage points. Works as diverse as eighteenth-century court petitions and lyrics of 1970s rock music demonstrate how definitions of southern masculinity and femininity have been subject to bewildering shifts and disabling contradictions for centuries.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.