Ordering the Facade: Photography and Contemporary Southern Women's Writing (New Directions in Southern Studies)
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| Rating | : | 4.66 (528 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0807858056 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-08-30 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
"Five Stars" according to Dean Smith. Wonderful! Illuminating! Makes me believe in God!
Henninger analyzes photography's literary functions in memoir, fiction, screenwriting, and poetry by a wide range of contemporary authors including Dorothy Allison, Ann Beattie, Rosemary Daniell, Julie Dash, Ronlyn Domingue, Josephine Humphreys, Jill McCorkle, Lee Smith, Natasha Trethewey, Anne Tyler, and Alice Walker. From postmodern art gallery to family album, photography in southern culture has both reinforced these cultural prejudices and provided potent counterimages. As each of these writers distinctively re-envisions traditional constructions of southern womanhood, Henninger shows, she joins the others in challenging the constrictions of "southern woman" and so changing the meaning of southernness itself.. P
Succeeds brilliantly in leading the way for future examiniations of the 'New South.'--Southern Humanities Review