Dirt and Desire: Reconstructing Southern Women's Writing, 1930-1990

by Patricia Yaeger

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226944913
• ISBN13: 9780226944913
• Release Date: July 2000
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 342 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.0"