Chapter 7. Southern Fiction
- David Seed Professor
Published Online: 5 NOV 2009
DOI: 10.1002/9781444310108.ch7
Copyright © 2010 Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Book Title
A Companion to Twentieth-Century United States Fiction
Additional Information
How to Cite
Monteith, S. (2009) Southern Fiction, in A Companion to Twentieth-Century United States Fiction (ed D. Seed), Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK. doi: 10.1002/9781444310108.ch7
Editor Information
University of Liverpool, UK
Publication History
- Published Online: 5 NOV 2009
- Published Print: 16 OCT 2009
ISBN Information
Print ISBN: 9781405146913
Online ISBN: 9781444310108
- Summary
- Chapter
Keywords:
- Southern fiction;
- The Lasting South (Kilpatrick and Rubin 1957), The Enduring South (Reed 1974);
- The Narrative Forms of Southern Community (Romine 1999);
- critical shift from American South to “global” U.S.;
- history and myth-making narratives;
- William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom! (1936) - epitomizing qualities of Southern storytelling;
- best-selling fictions of twentieth-century South - the “two-class” South;
- Southern Gothic and a Sense of Place - “the South” nation's backward cousin;
- race, the South, and the nation;
- Hurricane Katrina - U.S. South remaining symbolically estranged
Summary
This chapter contains sections titled:
History and Myth-Making Narratives
The Southern Gothic and a Sense of Place
Race, the South, and the Nation
References and Further Reading