An edition of The new Southern girl
(2004)
The new Southern girl
female adolescence in the works of 12 women authors
by Caren J. Town
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"This book addresses the ways in which 12 contemporary Southern women writers use their heroines' stories to challenge commonly held and frequently damaging notions of adolescence, femininity, and regional identity. The works of Anne Tyler, Bobbie Ann Mason, Josephine Humphreys, Dorothy Allison, Kaye Gibbons, Tina Ansa, Janisse Ray, Jill McCorkle and young adult writers Katherine Paterson, Mildred Taylor and Cynthia Voigt are examined in detail."--BOOK JACKET.
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Adolescence in literature, American Young adult fiction, American fiction, Books and reading, Girls in literature, History, History and criticism, In literature, Intellectual life, Teenage girls, Teenage girls in literature, Women, Women and literature, Women authors, Literature, American fiction, history and criticism, 20th century, American fiction, women authors, Adolescent girls, Southern states, in literaturePlaces
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The new Southern girl: female adolescence in the works of 12 women authors
2004, McFarland & Co.
in English
0786418931 9780786418930
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Table of Contents
Narratives of development/developing narratives
"Becoming, maybe so" : breakdowns, setbacks, and triumphs in Lee Smith's novels
"Three meal a day aftermaths" : Anne Tyler's determined adolescents
"One layer deeper" : on the road and in country with Sam Hughes
"People have no respect for girls" : Lucille Odom's ride through adolescence
"The hope of the remade life" : Allison's and Gibbons' rewritten girlhoods
"Claim what is yours" : Tina McElroy Ansa's spiritual journey
"Odd how things are and then they aren't" : Janisse Ray's identity of loss
"A whole world of possibilities" : Jill McCorkle's troubled and tenacious girls
"Keep on asking questions" : tough girls in young adult fiction.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-193) and index.
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