Haunted bodies : gender and southern texts / edited by Anne Goodwyn Jones and Susan V. Donaldson.

SeriesAmerican South series
American South series. ^A512620
Contents Haunted bodies : rethinking the South through gender / Susan V. Donaldson and Anne Goodwyn Jones -- Mask of obedience : male slave psychology in the Old South / Bertram Wyatt-Brown -- Afro-American women and their pursuit of rights through eighteenth-century Spanish texts / Jane Landers -- Poe and gentry Virginia : provincial gentleman, textual aristocrat, man of the crowd / David Leverenz -- Flight down the middle walk : Mary Chestnut and the forms of observance / Michael O'Brien -- Reconstructing southern manhood : race, sentimentality, and camp in the plantation myth / Caroline Gebhard -- Race, violence, and manhood : the masculine ideal in Frederick Douglass's The heroic slave / Richard Yarborough -- Santa Claus ain't a real man : incidents and gender / Anne Bradford Warner -- Engendered in the South : blood and irony in Douglass and Jacobs / Anne Goodwyn Jones -- Domesticity in Dixie : the plantation novel and Uncle Tom's cabin / Lucinda H. MacKethan -- Dining room door swings both ways : food, race, and domestic space in the nineteenth-century South / Mary Titus -- Writing sickness : a southern woman's diary of cares / Steven M. Stowe -- Beyond the hummingbird : southern women writers and the southern gargantua / Patricia Yaeger -- Biting the hand that writes you : southern African-American folk narrative and the place of women in Their eyes were watching God / Catherine Gunther Kodat -- Around, behind, above, below men : Ratliff's buggies and the homosocial in Yoknapatawpha / Noel Polk -- Freedom, manhood, and white male tradition in 1970s southern rock music / Ted Ownby -- Reading family matters / Deborah E. McDowell -- Nonfelicitous space and survivor discourse : reading the incest story in southern women's fiction / Minrose Gwin -- True happenings of my life : reading the southern women autobiographers / Peggy W. Prenshaw -- Slavery, race, and the figure of the tragic Mulatta; or the ghost of southern history in the writing of African-American women / Elizabeth Fox-Genovese -- Gender, race, and Allen Tate's profession of letters in the South / Susan V. Donaldson.
Local noteLittle-308751--305131013199-
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 97021472
ISBN0813917255 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0813917263 (paper : alk. paper)

Availability

Library Location Call Number Status Item Actions
Joyner General Stacks PS261 .H34 1997 ✔ Available Place Hold