Bastard Out of Carolina

Author	: Dorothy Allison
Publisher	: Penguin UK
Release Date	: 2012-08-02
ISBN 10	: 9780718192488
Pages	: 336 pages
Rating	: 4.7/5 (181 users)

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Download or read book Bastard Out of Carolina written by Dorothy Allison and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2012-08-02 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'About as close to flawless as any reader could ask for' The New York Times Book Review 'For anyone who has ever felt the contempt of a self-righteous world, this book will resonate within you like a gospel choir. For anyone who hasn't, this book will be an education' Barbara Kingsolver Carolina in the 1950s, and Bone - christened Ruth Anna Boatwright - lives a happy life, in and out of her aunt's houses, playing with her cousins on the porch, sipping ice tea, loving her little sister Reece and her beautiful young mother. But Glen Waddell has been watching them all, wanting her mother too, and when he promises a new life for the family, her mother gratefully accepts. Soon Bone finds herself in a different, terrible world, living in fear, and an exile from everything she knows. Bastard Out of Carolina is a raw, poignant tale of fury, power, love and family. This editon contains an introduction by the author. Dorothy Allison was awarded the 2007 Robert Penn Warren Award for Fiction, and has been likened to Flannery O'Connor, William Faulkner and Harper Lee.

The Limits of Autobiography

Author	: Leigh Gilmore
Publisher	: Cornell University Press
Release Date	: 2018-08-06
ISBN 10	: 9781501724343
Pages	: 176 pages
Rating	: 4.5/5 (17 users)

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Download or read book The Limits of Autobiography written by Leigh Gilmore and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-06 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Memoirs in which trauma takes a major—or the major—role challenge the limits of autobiography. Leigh Gilmore presents a series of "limit-cases"—texts that combine elements of autobiography, fiction, biography, history, and theory while representing trauma and the self—and demonstrates how and why their authors swerve from the formal constraints of autobiography when the representation of trauma coincides with self-representation. Gilmore maintains that conflicting demands on both the self and narrative may prompt formal experimentation by such writers and lead to texts that are not, strictly speaking, autobiography, but are nonetheless deeply engaged with its central concerns. In astute and compelling readings of texts by Michel Foucault, Louis Althusser, Dorothy Allison, Mikal Gilmore, Jamaica Kincaid, and Jeanette Winterson, Gilmore explores how each of them poses the questions, "How have I lived? How will I live?" in relation to the social and psychic forms within which trauma emerges. Challenging the very boundaries of autobiography as well as trauma, these stories are not told in conventional ways: the writers testify to how self-representation and the representation of trauma grow beyond simple causes and effects, exceed their duration in time, and connect to other forms of historical, familial, and personal pain. In their movement from an overtly testimonial form to one that draws on legal as well as literary knowledge, such texts produce an alternative means of confronting kinship, violence, and self-representation.

The World Is Our Home

Author	: Jeffrey J. Folks
Publisher	: University Press of Kentucky
Release Date	: 2014-07-15
ISBN 10	: 9780813161556
Pages	: 272 pages
Rating	: 4.8/5 (131 users)

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Download or read book The World Is Our Home written by Jeffrey J. Folks and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the early 1970s southern fiction has been increasingly attentive to social issues, including the continuing struggles for racial justice and gender equality, the loss of a sense of social community, and the decline of a coherent regional identity. The essays in The World Is Our Home focus on writers who have explicitly addressed social and cultural issues in their fiction and drama, including Dorothy Allison, Horton Foote, Ernest J. Gaines, Jill McCorkle, Walker Percy, Lee Smith, William Styron, Alice Walker, and many others. The contributors provide valuable insights into the transformation of southern culture over the past thirty years and probe the social and cultural divisions that persist. The collection makes an important case for the centrality of social critique in contemporary southern fiction.

Law and Literature

Author	: Brook Thomas
Publisher	: Gunter Narr Verlag
Release Date	: 2002
ISBN 10	: 3823341723
Pages	: 424 pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (417 users)

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Download or read book Law and Literature written by Brook Thomas and published by Gunter Narr Verlag. This book was released on 2002 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Haunted Bodies

Author	: Anne Goodwyn Jones
Publisher	: University of Virginia Press
Release Date	: 1997
ISBN 10	: 0813917263
Pages	: 554 pages
Rating	: 4.9/5 (172 users)

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Download or read book Haunted Bodies written by Anne Goodwyn Jones and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Haunted Bodies, Anne Goodwyn Jones and Susan V. Donaldson have brought together some of our most highly regarded southern historians and literary critics to consider race, gender, and texts through three centuries and from a wealth of vantage points. Works as diversive as eighteenth-century court petitions and lyrics of 1970s rock music demonstrate how definitions of southern masculinity and femininity have been subject to bewildering shifts and disabling contradictions for centuries.

Encyclopedia of Feminist Literature

Author	: Mary Ellen Snodgrass
Publisher	: Infobase Learning
Release Date	: 2015-04-22
ISBN 10	: 9781438140643
Pages	: 2146 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (381 users)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Feminist Literature written by Mary Ellen Snodgrass and published by Infobase Learning. This book was released on 2015-04-22 with total page 2146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents articles on feminist literature, including significant authors, themes and history.

Encyclopedia of Feminist Literature

Author	: Kathy J. Whitson
Publisher	: Greenwood Publishing Group
Release Date	: 2004
ISBN 10	: 0313327319
Pages	: 316 pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (273 users)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Feminist Literature written by Kathy J. Whitson and published by Greenwood Publishing Group. This book was released on 2004 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes substantial alphabetically arranged entries on roughly 70 feminist writers whose works are widely read in English, and on some 20 related topics.

Women s Studies Quarterly 98 1 2

Author	: Renny Christopher
Publisher	: Feminist Press at CUNY
Release Date	: 1998-06
ISBN 10	: 1558611916
Pages	: 276 pages
Rating	: 4.6/5 (119 users)

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Download or read book Women s Studies Quarterly 98 1 2 written by Renny Christopher and published by Feminist Press at CUNY. This book was released on 1998-06 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Â Â Â This vital and engaging collection expands and builds upone Women's Studies Quarterly's groundbreaking 1995 volume, honored with an award from the Council of Editor's of Learned Journals. The poetry, testimony, analysis, history, and theory collected here, which includes works by Patti See and Janet Zandy, not only suggests connective threads for understanding working-class experiences and literatures but also explores intersections of race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, and class. Such explorations are arranged around the issue's four themes: family, education, the workplace, and identity. From South African sexual relationships, to teaching Medieval studies to working-class students, to the politics of a deaf workers' publication, to poems written in prison, this issue testifies to the growing depth and scope of working-class studies. Essential reading for all interested in the field, this issue offers an anvaluable framework for discussing working-class literature, culture, and artistic production, while also attending to the material conditions of working class peoples' lives.

Disjointed Perspectives on Motherhood

Author	: Catalina Florina Florescu
Publisher	: Lexington Books
Release Date	: 2013-10-29
ISBN 10	: 9780739183182
Pages	: 264 pages
Rating	: 4.7/5 (391 users)

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Download or read book Disjointed Perspectives on Motherhood written by Catalina Florina Florescu and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2013-10-29 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Disjointed Perspectives on Motherhood seeks to reevaluate the concept of unconditional maternal love and the global emancipation of motherhood as recorded from 17th century onward and as analyzed in various genres: cinema, poetry, novel, drama, and mystery fiction series. By using unprecedented comparative critical approaches such as phenomenological, medical, feminist, and re-enchantment theories, and by analyzing works from literature, cinema, and visual arts, this collection attempts to reestablish and redefine a canonical concept with the intention to revitalize an otherwise taken-for-granted image and role.

The Advocate

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Release Date	: 1996-12-24
ISBN 10	:
Pages	: 80 pages
Rating	: 4./5 ( users)

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Download or read book The Advocate written by and published by . This book was released on 1996-12-24 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Advocate is a lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) monthly newsmagazine. Established in 1967, it is the oldest continuing LGBT publication in the United States.

The New Southern Girl

Author	: Caren J. Town
Publisher	: McFarland
Release Date	: 2015-01-24
ISBN 10	: 9780786482030
Pages	: 207 pages
Rating	: 4.7/5 (864 users)

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Download or read book The New Southern Girl written by Caren J. Town and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-01-24 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much has been written about America's troubled teens, particularly endangered teenage girls. Works like Mary Pipher's Reviving Ophelia and many others have contributed to the general perception that contemporary young women are in a state of crisis. Parents, educators, social scientists, and other concerned individuals worry that our nation's girls are losing their ambition, moral direction, and self-esteem as they enter adolescence--which can then lead them to promiscuous sex, anorexia, drug abuse, and at the very least, declining math scores. In spite of evidence to the contrary in life and literature, this bleak picture is seldom challenged, but a good place to begin may be with recent literary representations of young women, fictional and autobiographical, which show proud young women who are highly focused and use their brains and good humor to work toward satisfying adult lives. This book addresses the ways in which 12 women writers use their heroines' stories to challenge commonly held and frequently damaging notions of adolescence, femininity, and regional identity. The book begins with a chapter on sociological and literary theories of adolescent female development. This chapter also includes theoretically informed discussions of young adult fiction and Southern literature. Chapters that follow focus on adolescent heroines in the novels and autobiographies of the contemporary Southern women writers Anne Tyler, Bobbie Ann Mason, Josephine Humphreys, Dorothy Allison, Kaye Gibbons, Tina Ansa, Janisse Ray and Jill McCorkle and young adult writers Katherine Paterson, Mildred Taylor and Cynthia Voigt. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.

The Voice of the Mother

Author	: Jo Malin
Publisher	: SIU Press
Release Date	: 2000
ISBN 10	: 0809322668
Pages	: 144 pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (226 users)

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Download or read book The Voice of the Mother written by Jo Malin and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Analyzing this narrative practice, Malin examines ten texts by women who seem particularly compelled to tell their mothers' stories. Each author is, in fact, able to write her own autobiography only by using a narrative form that contains her mother's story at its core. These texts raise interesting questions about autobiography as a genre and about a feminist writing practice that resists and subverts the dominant literary tradition.".

Driving Women

Author	: Deborah Clarke
Publisher	: JHU Press
Release Date	: 2007-04-15
ISBN 10	: 0801886171
Pages	: 244 pages
Rating	: 4.8/5 (861 users)

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Download or read book Driving Women written by Deborah Clarke and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2007-04-15 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher description

Embodied Shame

Author	: J. Brooks Bouson
Publisher	: State University of New York Press
Release Date	: 2010-07-02
ISBN 10	: 9781438427393
Pages	: 239 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (384 users)

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Download or read book Embodied Shame written by J. Brooks Bouson and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2010-07-02 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines how twentieth-century women writers depict female bodily shame and trauma.

Witnessing Sadism in Texts of the American South

Author	: Claire Raymond
Publisher	: Routledge
Release Date	: 2019-10-28
ISBN 10	: 9781351872539
Pages	: 232 pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (518 users)

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Download or read book Witnessing Sadism in Texts of the American South written by Claire Raymond and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-10-28 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looking at works by Carrie Mae Weems, Toni Morrison, Emily Dickinson, Flannery O'Connor, Dorothy Allison, Carson McCullers, and Zora Neale Hurston, Claire Raymond uncovers a pattern of femininity constructed around representations of sadistic violence in American women's literature and photography from the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Dickinson's poetry is read through its relationship to the Southern Agrarian critics who championed her work. While the representations of violence found in Carrie Mae Weems's installation From Here I Saw What Happened and I Cried, Morrison's Beloved, Dickinson’s poetry, O'Connor's 'A View of the Woods' and 'A Good Man Is Hard to Find,' Allison's Bastard Out of Carolina, McCullers' Ballad of the Sad Café, and Hurston's Mules and Men are diverse in terms of artistic presentation, all allude to or are set in the antebellum and Jim Crow South. In addition, all involve feminine characters whose subjectivity is shaped by the practice of seeing acts of violence inflicted where there can be no effective resistance. While not proposing an equivalence between representing violence in visual images and written text, Raymond does suggest that visual images of violence can be interpreted in context with written evocations of violent imagery. Invoking sadism in its ethical sense of violence enacted on a victim for whom self-defense and recourse of any kind are impossible, Raymond's study is ultimately an exploration of the idea that a femininity constructed by the positioning of feminine characters as witnesses to sadistic acts is a phenomenon distinctly of the American South that is linked to the culture's history of racism.

Father Daughter Incest in Twentieth Century American Literature

Author	: Christine Grogan
Publisher	: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date	: 2016-10-03
ISBN 10	: 9781611479683
Pages	: 204 pages
Rating	: 4.6/5 (114 users)

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Download or read book Father Daughter Incest in Twentieth Century American Literature written by Christine Grogan and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-10-03 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This interdisciplinary study rereads father-daughter incest narratives of the last hundred years to argue for the importance of literature in representing not just circumscribed, singular traumatic events, as Cathy Caruth argued in the late nineties, but for giving voice to chronic and cumulative, or complex, traumatic experiences.

Rain on a Strange Roof

Author	: Jan Whitt
Publisher	: Hamilton Books
Release Date	: 2012-03-22
ISBN 10	: 9780761858300
Pages	: 184 pages
Rating	: 4.7/5 (618 users)

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Download or read book Rain on a Strange Roof written by Jan Whitt and published by Hamilton Books. This book was released on 2012-03-22 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A scholar of Southern literature and culture, Jan Whitt has written a personal narrative about adoption, childhood abuse, and fifty years of searching for her family in rural Appalachia. This book unflinchingly explores death and loss at the same time that it celebrates the transformative power of love and literature.