Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-185) and index.
Contents
Introduction: re-thinking southernness -- The measure of days : telling and feeling the South -- Season of lilacs : nostalgia and homeplace(s) of difference -- Queerly fundamental : complexities of Christian fundamentalism and queer desire -- The price of restoration : Flannery O'Connor and the South's biblical vision -- Conclusion : cosmopolitanism, grace, and communion.
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Summary
"No region has more distinct images of place than the South. This Corner of Canaan: Curriculum Studies of Place & the Reconstruction of the South makes a unique contribution to studies of curriculum and place, linking the particularities of Southern culture to social concerns of curriculum theory. Written by a Southerner about the South, this book extends curriculum of place by moving beyond a monolithic, pastoral South to one that exists within the paradox of its own aberrations: nostalgia, queer fundamentalist Christianity with its own anomalous notions of grace and communion, homeplaces of difference, and an apocalyptic Biblical vision."--BOOK JACKET.