History & Women, Culture & Faith: Selected Writings of Elizabeth Fox-Genovese: Ghosts and Memories: White and Black Southern Women's Lives and Writing

by Mark Bauerlein and Christina Bieber Lake

Written between the 1970s and the early twenty-first century, the fifteen pioneering essays in Ghosts and Memories share in decoding and contextualizing the writings and history of white and black southern women. In these essays Elizabeth Fox-Genovese moves beyond literary criticism to give illuminating historical context to the ways that slavery, race, and gender shaped--and were shaped by--the lives and writingsof her subjects from the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1570039917
• ISBN13: 9781570039911
• Release Date: May 2011
• Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.3"