World War I and southern modernism
著者
書誌事項
World War I and southern modernism
University Press of Mississippi, 2018
大学図書館所蔵 全3件
注記
Includes bibliographical references and index
収録内容
- The forward glance : modernity, southerners, and interregional contact
- The southern soldier in the American army : sectionalism, nationalism, and modernity
- The army of the disillusioned : black southerners, World War I, and civil rights
- Domestic disruption : World War I, modernity, and southern women's fiction
- Mules and machines : modernity, World War I, and the southern economy
- World War II and southern modernity
内容説明・目次
内容説明
Winner of the 2018 Eudora Welty Prize.
When the United States entered World War I, parts of the country had developed industries, urban cultures, and democratic political systems, but the South lagged behind, remaining an impoverished, agriculture region. Despite New South boosterism, the culture of the early twentieth-century South was comparatively artistically arid. Yet, southern writers dominated the literary marketplace by the 1920s and 1930s.
World War I brought southerners into contact with modernity before the South fully modernized. This shortfall created an inherent tension between the region's existing agricultural social structure and the processes of modernization, leading to distal modernism, a form of writing that combines elements of modernism to depict non-modern social structures. Critics have struggled to formulate explanations for the eruption of modern southern literature, sometimes called the Southern Renaissance.
Pinpointing World War I as the catalyst, David A. Davis argues southern modernism was not a self-generating outburst of writing, but a response to the disruptions modernity generated in the region. In World War I and Southern Modernism, Davis examines dozens of works of literature by writers, including William Faulkner, Ellen Glasgow, and Claude McKay, that depict the South during the war. Topics explored in the book include contact between the North and the South, southerners who served in combat, and the developing southern economy. Davis also provides a new lens for this argument, taking a closer look at African Americans in the military and changing gender roles.
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