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The narrative forms of Southern community

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"In this succinct study, Scott Romine considers a key paradox that has been associated with the concept of "community" from the beginning of modern southern literary criticism: namely, that communities often valued for their cohesiveness and moral stability were at the same time sites of oppression along race and class lines. How were communities so deeply divided able to maintain even the appearance of organic cohesiveness?

The Narrative Forms of Southern Community contains close readings of five narratives - Augustus Baldwin Longstreet's Georgia Scenes, John Pendleton Kennedy's Swallow Barn, Thomas Nelson Page's In Ole Virginia, William Alexander Percy's Lanterns on the Levee, and William Faulkner's Light in August - that attempt to mediate or negotiate the social tensions inherent in the stratified world they represent."--BOOK JACKET.

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Language
English
Pages
226

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The narrative forms of Southern community
1999, Louisiana State University Press, Louisiana State Univ Pr
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-222) and index.

Published in
Baton Rouge
Series
Southern literary studies

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813.009/975
Library of Congress
PS261 .R53 1999, PS261.R53 1999

The Physical Object

Pagination
226 p. ;
Number of pages
226

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL32871M
Internet Archive
narrativeformsof0000romi
ISBN 10
080712401X, 080712527X
LCCN
99014905
OCLC/WorldCat
41017357
Library Thing
1975159
Goodreads
1942432
808917

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