Title Dirt and desire : reconstructing southern women's writing, 1930-1990 / Patricia Yaeger.

Publication Info.	Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2000]
	©2000

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Description	1 online resource (xvii, 324 pages)
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-312) and index.
Contents	Chapter Nine Studying the Wafflehouse Chain, or Dirt as Desire in Their Eyes Were Watching GodNotes; References; Index.
Summary	The story of southern writing--the Dixie Limited, if you will--runs along an iron path: an official narrative of a literature about community, about place and the past, about miscegenation, white patriarchy, and the epic of race. Patricia Yaeger dynamites the rails, providing an entirely new set of categories through which to understand southern literature and culture. For Yaeger, works by black and white southern women writers reveal a shared obsession with monstrosity and the grotesque and with the strange zones of contact between black and white, such as the daily trauma of underpaid labor and.
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Subject	American fiction -- Southern States -- History and criticism.
	Women and literature -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century.
	American fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
	American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
	Authors, American -- Homes and haunts -- Southern States.
	Southern States -- Intellectual life -- 1865-
	Southern States -- In literature.
	Race in literature.
	American fiction.
	Authors, American.
	Women and literature.
	LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
	American fiction. (OCoLC)fst00807048
	American fiction -- Women authors. (OCoLC)fst00807099
	Authors, American -- Homes and haunts. (OCoLC)fst00821779
	Intellectual life. (OCoLC)fst00975769
	Literature. (OCoLC)fst00999953
	Race in literature. (OCoLC)fst01086506
	Women and literature. (OCoLC)fst01177093
	Southern States. (OCoLC)fst01244550
	Letterkunde.
	Amerikaans.
	Vrouwelijke auteurs.
Chronological Term	Since 1865
Genre/Form	Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Added Title	Dirt & desire
	Reconstructing southern women's writing, 1930-1990
Other Form:	Print version: Yaeger, Patricia. Dirt and desire. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©2000 0226944905 9780226944906 (DLC) 99085969 (OCoLC)43227328
ISBN	9780226944920 (electronic bk.)
	0226944921 (electronic bk.)

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