Class, Whiteness, and Southern Literature

Class, Whiteness, and Southern Literature
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 205
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ISBN-10 : 9781009250603
ISBN-13 : 1009250604
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Book Synopsis Class, Whiteness, and Southern Literature by : Jolene Hubbs

Download or read book Class, Whiteness, and Southern Literature written by Jolene Hubbs and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-12-15 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Class, Whiteness, and Southern Literature explores the role that representations of poor white people play in shaping both middle-class American identity and major American literary movements and genres across the long twentieth century. Jolene Hubbs reveals that, more often than not, poor white characters imagined by middle-class writers embody what better-off people are anxious to distance themselves from in a given moment. Poor white southerners are cast as social climbers during the status-conscious Gilded Age, country rubes in the modern era, racist obstacles to progress during the civil rights struggle, and junk food devotees in the health-conscious 1990s. Hubbs illuminates how Charles Chesnutt, William Faulkner, Flannery O'Connor, Dorothy Allison, and Barbara Robinette Moss swam against these tides, pioneering formal innovations with an eye to representing poor white characters in new ways.


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