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ISBN10: 1578060451, ISBN13: 9781578060450, [publisher: Univ Pr of Mississippi] Softcover 200 pages. 9.25x6.25x0.75 inches. In Stock.
[Exeter, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1998]

ISBN10: 1578060451, ISBN13: 9781578060450, [publisher: University Press Of Mississippi] Softcover nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - 'I take.an outward route, arguing that the Agrarian project was and must be seen as a willed campaign on the part of one elite to establish and control 'the South' in a period of intense cultural maneuvering. The principal organizers of I'll Take My Stand knew full well there were other 'Souths' than the one they touted; they deliberately presented a fabricated South as the one and only real thing.' In Inventing Southern Literature Michael Kreyling casts a penetrating ray upon the traditional canon of southern literature and questions the modes by which it was created. He finds that it was, indeed, an invention rather than a creation. In the 1930s the foundations were laid by the Fugitive-Agrarian group, a band of poet-critics that wished not only to design but also to control the southern cultural entity in a conservative political context. From their heyday to the present, Kreyling investigates the historical conditions under which literary and cultural critics have invented 'the South' and how they have chosen its representations. Through his study of these choices, Kreyling argues that interested groups have shaped meanings that preserve 'a South' as 'the South.' As the Fugitive-Agrarians molded the region according to their definition in ...
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