Understanding Bobbie Ann Mason
By: Joanna Price.
Series: Understanding contemporary American literature
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Columbia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 187
Subjects: Mason, Bobbie Ann -- Criticism and interpretation.; Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century.; Rural conditions in literature.; Working class in literature.; Country life in literature.; Kentucky -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.; Kentucky -- In literature.
Description: "Understanding Bobbie Ann Mason explores the literary accomplishments of a writer whose works straddle the line between highbrow literature and popular culture, an author whose writings are studied in academia and loved by general readers.

Best known for her short story collections and her novels Feather Crowns, Spence + Lila, and In Country - the last of which is also a motion picture - Mason writes about small-town life in contemporary western Kentucky and the consumer culture that has replaced the agrarian values of previous generations.

In this comprehensive analysis, Joanna Price offers an introduction to Mason's nonfiction prose, short stories, and novels, and sheds light on the writer's distinctive style and thematic concerns."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [171]-181) and index.
Table of contents: title: Biography and background; title: Understanding Bobbie Ann Mason; title: Shiloh and other stories; title: In country; title: Spence + Lila and Love life; title: Feather crowns.