Plantation Airs: Racial Paternalism and the Transformations of Class in Southern Fiction, 1945--1971 (Southern Literary Studies)
Language: English
Published by LSU Press, 2007
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- Title
- Plantation Airs: Racial Paternalism and the Transformations of Class in Southern Fiction, 1945--1971 (Southern Literary Studies)
- Author
- Costello, Brannon
- Publisher
- LSU Press
- Publication year
- 2007
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- As New
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- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0807132705
- ISBN 13
- 9780807132708
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- 1st Edition
Fiction by Zora Neale Hurston, Eudora Welty, William Faulkner, Ernest Gaines, Walker Percy, and others reveals, however, that the racial paternalism central to class formation and mobility in the South was unraveling in the years after World War II, when the civil rights movement and the South's increasing industrialization dramatically altered southern life. Costello demonstrates that these writers were keenly aware of the ways in which the changes sweeping the South complicated the deeply embedded structures that governed the relationship between race and class. He further contends that the collapse of racial paternalism as a means of organizing class lies at the heart of their most important works - including Hurston's Seraph on the Suwanee and her essay ""The 'Pet Negro' System,"" Welty's Delta Wedding and The Ponder Heart, Faulkner's The Mansion and The Reivers, Gaines's Of Love and Dust and his story ""Bloodline,"" and Percy's The Last Gentleman and Love in the Ruins.
By examining ways in which these works depict and critique the fall of the plantation ideal and its aftermath, Plantation Airs indicates the richness and complexity of the literary responses to this intersection of race and class. Understanding how many of the modern South's best writers imagined and engaged the various facets of racial paternalism in their fiction, Costello confirms, helps readers construct a more comprehensive picture of the complications and contradictions of class in the South.
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