Haunted bodies : gender and southern texts

Author(s): Donaldson, Susan Van D. Elden

Journal/Book: The American South series.. 1997; Charlottesville. University Press of Virginia. x, 533.

Note: 97021472 edited by Anne Goodwyn Jones and Susan V. Donaldson. Includes bibliographical references and index. Haunted bodies : rethinking the South through gender / Mask of obedience : male slave psychology in the Old South / Afro-American women and their pursuit of rights through eighteenth-century Spanish texts / Poe and gentry Virginia : provincial gentleman, textual aristocrat, man of the crowd / Flight down the middle walk : Mary Chestnut and the forms of observance / Reconstructing southern manhood : race, sentimentality, and camp in the plantation myth / Race, violence, and manhood : the masculine ideal in Frederick Douglass's The heroic slave / Santa Claus ain't a real man : incidents and gender / Engendered in the South : blood and irony in Douglass and Jacobs / Domesticity in Dixie : the plantation novel and Uncle Tom's cabin / Dining room door swings both ways : food, race, and domestic space in the nineteenth-century South / Writing sickness : a southern woman's diary of cares / Beyond the hummingbird : southern women writers and the southern gargantua / Biting the hand that writes you : southern African-American folk narrative and the place of women in Their eyes were watching God / Around, behind, above, below men : Ratliff's buggies and the homosocial in Yoknapatawpha / Freedom, manhood, and white male tradition in 1970s southern rock music / Reading family matters / Nonfelicitous space and survivor discourse : reading the incest story in southern women's fiction / True happenings of my life : reading the southern women autobiographers / Slavery, race, and the figure of the tragic Mulatta; or the ghost of southern history in the writing of African-American women / Gender, race, and Allen Tate's profession of letters in the South /

Keyword(s): American literature Southern States History and criticism.. Literature and society Southern States.. Southern States Historiography.. Southern States In literature.. Gender identity in literature.. Southern States Civilization.. Body, Human, in literature.. Race in literature.. Sex in literature.

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