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The Oxford Handbook of the Literature of the U.S. South

Fred Hobson editor Barbara Ladd editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Oxford University Press Inc

Published:18th Feb '16

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The Oxford Handbook of the Literature of the U.S. South brings together contemporary views of the literature of the region in a series of chapters employing critical tools not traditionally used in approaching southern literature. It assumes ideas of the South--global, multicultural, plural: more Souths than South--that would not have been embraced two or three decades ago, and it similarly expands the idea of literature itself. Representative of the current range of activity in the field of southern literary studies, it challenges earlier views of antebellum southern literature, as well as, in its discussions of twentieth century writing, questions the assumption that the Southern Renaissance of the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s was the supreme epoch of southern expression, that writing to which all that had come before had led and by which all that came afterward was judged. As well as canonical southern writers, it examines Native American literature, Latina/o literature, Asian American as well as African American literatures, Caribbean studies, sexuality studies, the relationship of literature to film, and a number of other topics which are relatively new to the field.

Including excellent bibliographies, this handbook demonstrates the achievement and the promise of the new Southern studies. * M. L. Robertson, CHOICE *

ISBN: 9780199767472

Dimensions: 180mm x 251mm x 43mm

Weight: 1134g

584 pages