Reading Erskine Caldwell
Subtitle: new essays
By: edited by Robert L. McDonald.
Contributors: McDonald, Robert L., 1964-
Publisher: McFarland; McFarland & Company
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Jefferson, N.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 239
Subjects: Caldwell, Erskine, 1903- -- Criticism and interpretation.; Southern States -- In literature.
Description: "These 12 essays consider Caldwell from many angles. They discuss him as humorist, social commentator, modernist, and revolutionary novelist. They examine his themes and tropes and his use of artistic devices. A bibliography includes not only books on Caldwell but also chapters and forewords, journal articles, essays, news items and obituaries"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Erskine Caldwell's short stories : teetering on the edge of the canon / David Rachels; title: Well, maybe just this once : Erskine Caldwell, Old Southwest humor, and funny ha-ha / Bert Hitchcock; title: Comedy and satire in Erskine Caldwell's The sure hand of God / Hugh Ruppersburg; title: Erskine Caldwell : modernism from the bottom up / Sylvia J. Cook; title: Cubist strategies : from Williams's "Red wheelbarrow" to Caldwell's "Yellow girl" / Joyce Caldwell Smith; title: Poeticizing the political image : Caldwell, Bourke-White, and the recasting of phototextual expression / Tom Jacobs; title: Social injustice embodied : Caldwell and the grotesque / Natalie Wilson; title: Silent spring on Tobacco Road : the degradation of the environment in Erskine Caldwell's fiction / Christopher B. Rieger; title: Ripe for revolution : ideological struggle in God's little acre / Jonathan Dyen; title: Repetition as radical critique in Erskine Caldwell's God's little acre / Christopher Metress; title: Erskine Caldwell and Judge Lynch : Caldwell's role in the anti-lynching campaigns of the 1930s / Edwin T. Arnold; title: Sexual degeneracy and the anti-lynching tradition in Erskine Caldwell's Trouble in July / Andrew B. Leiter; title: Selected bibliography of works on Erskine Caldwell, 1982-2005 / Robert L. McDonald.