Title: The new Southern girl
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.
Subjects: Adolescence in literature, American Young adult fiction, American fiction, Books and reading, Girls in literature, History, History and criticism, In literature, Intellectual life, Teenage girls, Teenage girls in literature, Women, Women and literature, Women authors, Literature, American fiction, history and criticism, 20th century, American fiction, women authors, Adolescent girls, Southern states, in literature
Places: Southern States
Time periods: 20th century