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The Critical Reception of Lewis Nordan
Article first published online: 3 OCT 2010
DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-4113.2010.00751.x
© 2010 The Author. Literature Compass © 2010 Blackwell Publishing Ltd
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Bjerre, T. Æ. (2010), The Critical Reception of Lewis Nordan. Literature Compass, 7: 922–934. doi: 10.1111/j.1741-4113.2010.00751.x
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- Issue published online: 3 OCT 2010
- Article first published online: 3 OCT 2010
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Abstract
The essay covers the critical reception of Mississippi-writer Lewis Nordan from his debut in 1983 to the boost in scholarly attention in the new millennium. The essay covers newspaper reviews but pays particular attention to the many academic essays that have placed Nordan as a writer in the southern literary tradition and have highlighted themes such as magical realism, the grotesque, race relations, music, and gender.