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The Postsouthern Sense of Place in Contemporary Fiction

The Postsouthern Sense of Place in Contemporary Fiction

Bone, Martyn

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Series: Southern Literary Studies

Literary Criticism

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ISBN10: 0807130532
ISBN13: 9780807130537
Publisher: LSU Press
Published: Jun 1 2005
Pages: 296
Weight: 1.33
Height: 1.03 Width: 6.40 Depth: 9.30
Language: English

For generations, southern novelists and critics have grappled with a concept that is widely seen as a trademark of their literature: a strong attachment to geography, or a sense of place. In the 1930s, the Agrarians accorded special meaning to rural life, particularly the farm, in their definitions of southern identity. For them, the South seemed an organic and rooted region in contrast to the North, where real estate development and urban sprawl evoked a faceless, raw capitalism. By the end of the twentieth century, however, economic and social forces had converged to create a modernized South. How have writers responded to this phenomenon? Is there still a sense of place in the South, or perhaps a distinctly postsouthern sense of place?

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