The new Southern girl
Subtitle: female adolescence in the works of 12 women authors
By: Caren J. Town.
Publisher: McFarland & Co.
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Jefferson, N.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 199
Subjects: American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.; Girls in literature.; Women and literature -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century.; American fiction -- Southern States -- History and criticism.; American fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism.; Young adult fiction, American -- History and criticism.; Women -- Southern States -- Intellectual life.; Teenage girls -- Books and reading.; Teenage girls in literature.; Adolescence in literature.; Southern States -- In literature.
Description: "This book addresses the ways in which 12 contemporary Southern women writers use their heroines' stories to challenge commonly held and frequently damaging notions of adolescence, femininity, and regional identity. The works of Anne Tyler, Bobbie Ann Mason, Josephine Humphreys, Dorothy Allison, Kaye Gibbons, Tina Ansa, Janisse Ray, Jill McCorkle and young adult writers Katherine Paterson, Mildred Taylor and Cynthia Voigt are examined in detail."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-193) and index.
Table of contents: title: Narratives of development/developing narratives; title: "Becoming, maybe so" : breakdowns, setbacks, and triumphs in Lee Smith's novels; title: "Three meal a day aftermaths" : Anne Tyler's determined adolescents; title: "One layer deeper" : on the road and in country with Sam Hughes; title: "People have no respect for girls" : Lucille Odom's ride through adolescence; title: "The hope of the remade life" : Allison's and Gibbons' rewritten girlhoods; title: "Claim what is yours" : Tina McElroy Ansa's spiritual journey; title: "Odd how things are and then they aren't" : Janisse Ray's identity of loss; title: "A whole world of possibilities" : Jill McCorkle's troubled and tenacious girls; title: "Keep on asking questions" : tough girls in young adult fiction.