Nationalism and the Colour Line in George W.Cable, Mark Twain and William Faulkner (Southern Literary Studies) - Hardcover

Ladd, Barbara

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0807120650 ISBN 13: 9780807120651

Publisher: Louisiana State University Press, 1996

Synopsis

A study of the works by three postbellum novelists with strong ties to the Deep South and Mississippi Valley. It argues that writers like Cable, Twain, and Faulkner cannot be read exclusively within the context of a nationalistically defined "American" literature.

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Nationalism and the Color Line in George W. Cable, Mark Twain, and William Faulkner is a strikingly original study of works by three postbellum novelists with strong ties to the Deep South and Mississippi Valley. In it, Barbara Ladd argues that writers like Cable, Twain, and Faulkner cannot be read exclusively within the context of a nationalistically defined "American" literature, but must also be understood in light of the cultural legacy that French and Spanish colonialism bestowed on the Deep South and the Mississippi River Valley, specifically with respect to the very different ways these colonialist cultures conceptualized race, color, and nationality.

Synopsis

Ladd (American literature, Emory U.) examines the issues of race and nationalism in the work of three postbellum novelists with strong ties to the Deep South and the Mississippi Valley, arguing that their writing cannot be read exclusively within the context of a nationalistically defined American literature, but must also be understood in light of

Edition details

• Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0807120650
• ISBN 13: 9780807120651
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 232