Rewriting the South : history and fiction

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Rewriting the South : history and fiction

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	International symposium (Other)
Other Authors:	Hönnighausen, Lothar (Editor), Gennaro Lerda, Valeria (Editor)
Format:	Conference Proceeding Book
Language:	German English
Published:	Tübingen : Francke, 1993
Series:	Transatlantic Perspectives 3
Subjects:	Rewrite <Neuschreiben> Literaturgeschichte Neuschreiben <Rewrite> Geschichte
Contents/pieces:	34 records

1. 1835: the first "Annus Mirabilis" of southern fiction

2. The invention of southern tradition : the writing and ritualization of southern history, 1880 - 1940

3. The Farm Security Administration photographic project's : reinvention of the southern poor white in the 1930s

4. "Mind" in the mainstream : "The Mind of the South" and the mind of the nation, 1941 - 1991

5. Upon being southernovelized : my town, my department, my friends, and me in a Carpetbagger Novel

6. Margaret Walker's "Jubilee" : oral history, the fiction of literacy, and the language of a black text

7. The novelist as historian in "Requiem for a nun"

8. William Bartram's "Travels" : a natural history of the south

9. "The inexorable plot of racism" : the case of Abigail Howland

10. "He was talking about truth" : Faulkner in pursuit of the old verities

11. Historical cousciousness, aesthetics and the experimental southern novel

12. Southern history, American fiction : the secret life of southwestern novelist Forrest Carter

13. Rewriting the post-bellum plantation south : change and continuity in recent American historiography

14. Southern Sojourn : Frances Anne Kemble

15. History as autobiography : an approach to the fiction of William Faulkner

16. Aspects of rewriting the south : introduction

17. Faulkner's Cosmos and the incarnation of history in "Light in august"

18. Creating the history of decline : John Taylor, Edmund Ruffin, and Avery Craven as historian-reformers

19. Ellen Glasgow's "The Battle-Ground" : civil war Richmond in fiction and history

20. Within and beyond the southern tradition : Walker Percy

21. The sacrifice of history in the new criticism of Cleanth Brooks

22. The circle of the Charleston poetry society and the creation of the image of the Carolina Lowcountry

23. Definitions of southern identity in the civil war novels of John Esten Cooke

24. "The eye composes itself" : text and terrain in Jefferson's Virginia

25. Fascism, the democratic revival, and the southern writer

26. Sam Watkins and the fictionality of fact

27. History and fiction : family quarrel / family reunion

28. Faulkner rewriting the Indian removal

29. The past as the tense of poetry: "I'll take my stand" and the fictionalization of modernity

30. Women in the south : history as fiction, fiction as history

31. Gender and the profession of letters in the south

32. On the writing of history in the old south

33. The modernization of the south : the lament for rural worlds lost

34. Walker Percy's south(s)