Apocalypse south
Subtitle: judgment, cataclysm, and resistance in the regional imaginary
By: Anthony Dyer Hoefer
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Columbus
Language: eng
Number of pages: 188
ISBN-13: 9780814212011; 9780814293034
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation; History and criticism; American literature; Apocalyptic literature; Apocalypse in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Tracing the apocalyptic imaginary; title: Southern Jeremiad, American Jeremiad : region, nation, and apocalypse in Faulkner's Light in August; title: "Tearing down the temple" : prophetic time and Richard Wright's eschatology of resistance; title: "Some say ain't no earthly explanation" : excavating the apocalyptic landscape of Randall Kenan's Tims creek; title: "An't it time the Lord did something?" : vindication and the practices of place in Bastard out of Carolina; title: Epilogue : Apocalypse south, redux : searching for meaning after the flood.