The Postsouthern Sense of Place in Contemporary Fiction (Southern Literary Studies) - Softcover

Martyn Bone (Author)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0807156345 ISBN 13: 9780807156346

Publisher: LSU Press, 2014

Synopsis

In this innovative book, Martyn Bone explores perspectives of the southern "sense of place" and examines it in a national and global context. Bone assesses work of Neo-Agrarian writers William Faulkner and Eudora Welty, as well as more recent responses to the impact of capitalist spatial development on the South-including the self-declared "international city" of Atlanta. Close readings of novels by Robert Penn Warren, Walker Percy, Richard Ford, Anne Rivers Siddons, Tom Wolfe, and Toni Cade Bambara illuminate ideas about capital, land, labor, and class while introducing southern literary studies into a wider debate. Bone concludes with works of Harry Crews and Barbara Kingsolver that suggest the southern sense of place may not be only southern, but diversely transnational.

About this title

About the Author

Martyn Bone is associate professor of American literature and head of the Center for Transnational American Studies at the University of Copenhagen. He is also the editor of Perspectives on Barry Hannah, as well as the coeditor of The American South in the Atlantic World and Creating Citizenship in the Nineteenth-Century South.

From the Back Cover

"Martyn Bone presents fresh and evocative close readings of capitalist property relations in the fiction of contemporary southern writers, and the concept of the postsouthern gives it its heady theoretical buzz, one that will no doubt influence future studies." -- American Literature

"Bone makes a welcome contribution to the field of southern literary studies by demonstrating how newer critical theories of place can illuminate southern literature.... [He] combines a sophisticated theoretical discussion with convincing close readings." -- Journal of American Studies

In this innovative book, Martyn Bone explores perspectives of the southern "sense of place" and examines it in a national and global context. Bone assesses work of Neo-Agrarian writers William Faulkner and Eudora Welty, as well as more recent responses to the impact of capitalist spatial development on the South -- including the self-declared "international city" of Atlanta. His scrutiny of novels by Robert Penn Warren, Walker Percy, Richard Ford, Anne Rivers Siddons, Tom Wolfe, and Toni Cade Bambara reveal ideas about capital, land, labor, and class while introducing southern literary studies into a wider debate. Bone concludes with works of Harry Crews and Barbara Kingsolver that suggest the southern sense of place may not be only southern, but diversely transnational.

Edition details

• Publisher: LSU Press
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0807156345
• ISBN 13: 9780807156346
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 250