Songs of the new South : writing contemporary Louisiana
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Songs of the new South : writing contemporary Louisiana
（Contributions to the study of American literature, no. 8）
Greenwood Press, 2001
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-206) and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
The works of Louisiana authors differ from the works of other Southern writers in significant ways. Strong French, Spanish, Native American, and African American traditions shaped Louisiana culture, and Louisiana writers reflect that cultural diversity in their works. So too, historical and religious influences caused Louisiana to develop in a distinct way, and these influences have similarly affected Louisiana writers. The narrative styles employed by these writers generally differ from the styles of other Southern authors. While contemporary Louisiana writers have contributed a substantial body of work to Southern literature, their writings have not received adequate scholarly attention. This book provides a critical introduction to Louisiana literature and gives special attention to how Louisiana literature and culture depart from the rest of the South.
The volume is the first collection of scholarly studies focusing on Louisiana writers from the 1930s to the present. Drawing together discussions of 15 of Louisiana's current premier fiction writers, the collection is organized into three broad sections. The first examines Louisiana narratives and folk traditions; the second, influences of religious traditions on Louisiana writers, including Protestantism, Catholicism, and Paganism; and the third, the construction of gender and race in Louisiana culture. Included are discussions of such writers as Ernest J. Gaines, Anne Rice, James Lee Burke, Moira Crone, John Dufresne, Michael Lee West, Rebecca Wells, and Robert Olin Butler.
目次
Introduction: Writing Louisiana: A New Generation Tells Their Stories Louisiana Narrative and Folk Traditions Living on the Edge in Rebecca Well's Little Altars Everywhere by Mary Ann Wilson Food and Foodways in Michael Lee West's She Flew the Coop: A Novel Concerning Life, Death, Sex, and Recipes in Limoges, Louisiana by Lisa Abney Toole's Louisiana Voice in The Neon Bible by Patricia A. Threatt The Kingfish as Author: Huey Long's Two Political Autobiographies by Philip Dubuisson Castille Locating Community in Contemporary Southern Fiction: Analyzing Robert Olen Butler's A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain by Erin E. Campbell Cash The Spell of the Swampland: The Gulf Coast Fictions of Shirley Ann Grau by Sally Blanton Outside of Time: Dave Robicheaux and the Criminal Kind of Postmodern Louisiana by Thomas Easterling From Huey Long to Willie Stark: Louisiana Politics in All the King's Men by Harold Woodell Paganism, Papism, Protestantism, and the New Southern Religion Postmodernism Goes South: John Dufresne's Louisiana Power and Light by David J. Caudle Fiction is My Religion: Conversations with John Dufresne by Kevin Blaine Bell and David J. Caudle Invoking Generational Demons: Orality and Catholicism in The Witching Hour by Kenneth Price and Shelby Posrak The Complicated Catholicism of Andre Dubus by Michael Cocchiarale Lady of the Earth and Moon: Goddess Imagery and the Ya Yas by Lori Rowlett Black Cat Bone and Snake Wisdom: New Orleans Hoodoo, Haitian Voodoo, and Rereading Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God by Pamela Glenn Menke Three Castes of Race and Gender Awakening the Essence of Blue: The Emerging Southern Women of Kate Chopin and Moira Crone by Suzanne Disheroon Green Equality for African American (Wo)Men: Quests for Masculinity in Ernest Gaines's Bloodline by Laurie Champion Against Regulations: Southern Women in the Fiction of Rebecca Wells by Patricia M. Grant Ellen Gilchrist's Heroines, the Scourge of New Orleans by Mary McCay Rape and Redemption: The Revision of Colored Female Chastity in Pauline Hopkin's Contending Forces and Anne Rice's The Feast of All Saints by Amy Anastasia Birge Bloodlines: Representations of Black and White Creoles in the Fiction of Ernest Gaines by Keith Byerman
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