The narrative forms of Southern community
By: Scott Romine.
Series: Southern literary studies
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press; Louisiana State Univ Pr
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Baton Rouge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 226
Subjects: Longstreet, Augustus Baldwin, 1790-1870.; Kennedy, John Pendleton, 1795-1870.; Page, Thomas Nelson, 1853-1922.; Percy, William Alexander, 1885-1942.; Faulkner, William, 1897-1962.; American fiction -- Southern States -- History and criticism.; Community in literature.; Narration (Rhetoric); Literary form.; Autobiography.; Southern States -- In literature.
Description: "In this succinct study, Scott Romine considers a key paradox that has been associated with the concept of "community" from the beginning of modern southern literary criticism: namely, that communities often valued for their cohesiveness and moral stability were at the same time sites of oppression along race and class lines. How were communities so deeply divided able to maintain even the appearance of organic cohesiveness?

The Narrative Forms of Southern Community contains close readings of five narratives - Augustus Baldwin Longstreet's Georgia Scenes, John Pendleton Kennedy's Swallow Barn, Thomas Nelson Page's In Ole Virginia, William Alexander Percy's Lanterns on the Levee, and William Faulkner's Light in August - that attempt to mediate or negotiate the social tensions inherent in the stratified world they represent."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-222) and index.