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The Postsouthern Sense of Place in Contemporary Fiction

ref. B9780807156346Paperback / softback. New. For generations southern novelists and critics have grappled with a concept that is widely seen as a trademark of their literature: a strong attachment to geography or a ""sense of place."" In the 1930s the Agrarians accorded special meaning to rural life particularly the farm in their definitions of southern identity. For them the South seemed an organic and rooted region in contrast to the North where real estate development and urban sprawl evoked a faceless raw capitalism. By the end of the twentieth century however economic and social forces had converged to create a modernized South. How have writers responded to this phenomenon Is there still a sense of place in the South or perhaps a distinctly postsouthern sense of place Martyn Bone innovatively draws upon postmodern thinking to consider the various perspectives that southern writers have brought to the concept of ""place"" and to look at its fate in a national and global context. He begins with a revisionist assessment of the Agrarians who failed in their attempts to turn their proprietary ideal of the small farm into actual policy but whose broader rural aesthetic lived on in the work of neo-Agrarian writers including William Faulkner and Eudora Welty. By the 1950s adherence to this aesthetic was causing southern writers and critics to lose sight of the social reality of a changing South. Bone turns to more recent works that do respond to the impact of capitalist spatial development on the South - and on the nation generally - including that self-declared ""international city"" Atlanta. Close readings of novels by Robert Penn Warren Walker Percy Richard Ford Anne Rivers Siddons Tom Wolfe and Toni Cade Bambara illuminate evolving ideas about capital land labor and class while introducing southern literary studies into wider debates around social cultural and literary geography. Bone concludes his remarkably rich book by considering works of Harry Crews and Barbara Kingsolver that suggest the southern sense of place may be not only post-Agrarian or postsouthern but also transnational. paperback

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