The narrative forms of Southern community
by Scott Romine
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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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Autobiography, In literature, Narration (Rhetoric), Literary form, American fiction, History and criticism, Community in literature, American literature, history and criticism, 20th century, Communities in literaturePeople
Thomas Nelson Page (1853-1922), Augustus Baldwin Longstreet (1790-1870), William Faulkner (1897-1962), John Pendleton Kennedy (1795-1870), William Alexander Percy (1885-1942)Places
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The narrative forms of Southern community
1999, Louisiana State University Press, Louisiana State Univ Pr
in English
080712401X 9780807124017
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-222) and index.
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