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Women on the color line : evolving stereotypes and the writings of George Washington Cable, Grace King, Kate Chopin
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ISBN: 0813911699 Year: 1989 Publisher: Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia,


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Versions of the past : the historical imagination in American fiction
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ISBN: 0195018109 Year: 1974 Publisher: New York Oxford University Press

Our decentralized literature : cultural mediations in selected Jewish and Southern writers
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ISBN: 0870235400 0585083258 9780585083254 0870235273 9780870235276 9780870235405 1122052197 9781122052191 Year: 1986 Publisher: Amherst University of Massachusetts Press

Contesting the past, reconstructing the nation : American literature and culture in the Gilded Age, 1876-1893
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ISBN: 0817315802 9780817315801 0817357920 0817380205 9780817380205 Year: 2007 Volume: *3 Publisher: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press,

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Fables of American history embodied in Gilded Age literature In this study of Gilded Age literature and culture, Benjamin Railton proposes that in the years after Reconstruction, America's identity was often contested through distinct and competing conceptions of the nation's history. He argues that the United States moved toward unifying and univocal historical narratives in the years between the Centennial and Columbian Expositions, that ongoing social conflict provided sites for complications of those narratives, and that works of historical literature offer some


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Race and culture in New Orleans stories : Kate Chopin, Grace King, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, and George Washington Cable
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ISBN: 081738717X 9780817387174 9780817313388 0817313389 Year: 2014 Publisher: Tuscaloosa : University Alabama Press,

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"Race and Culture in New Orleans Stories posits that the Crescent City and the surrounding Louisiana bayous were a logical setting for the literary exploration of crucial social problems in America. Race and Culture in New Orleans Stories is a study of four volumes of interrelated short stories set in New Orleans and the surrounding Louisiana bayous: Kate Chopin's Bayou Folk; George Washington Cable's Old Creole Days; Grace King's Balcony Stories; and Alice Dunbar-Nelson's The Goodness of St. Rocque and Other Stories. James Nagel argues that the conflicts and themes in these stories cannot be understood without a knowledge of the unique historical context of the founding of Louisiana, its four decades of rule by the Spanish, the Louisiana Purchase and the resulting cultural transformations across the region, Napoleonic law, the Code Noir, the plaçage tradition, the immigration of various ethnic and natural groups into the city, and the effects of the Civil War and Reconstruction. All of these historical factors energize and enrich the fiction of this important region. The literary context of these volumes is also central to understanding their place in literary history. They are short-story cycles--collections of short fiction that contain unifying settings, recurring characters or character types, and central themes and motifs. They are also examples of the "local color" tradition in fiction, a movement that has been much misunderstood. Nagel maintains that "local color" literature was meant to be the highest form of American writing, not the lowest, and its objective was to capture the locations, folkways, values, dialects, conflicts, and ways of life in the various regions of the country in order to show that the lives of common citizens were sufficiently important to be the subject of serious literature. Finally, Nagel shows that New Orleans provided a profoundly rich and complex setting for the literary exploration of some of the most crucial social problems in America, including racial stratification, social caste, economic exploitation, and gender roles, all of which were undergoing rapid transformation at the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth"--

Nationalism and the color line in George W. Cable, Mark Twain, and William Faulkner
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ISBN: 0807120650 0807130494 Year: 1996 Volume: *31 Publisher: Baton Rouge ; London Louisiana State University Press

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African Americans in literature --- Afro-Americans in literature --- Afro-Amerikanen in de literatuur --- Afro-Américains dans la littérature --- American national characteristics in literature --- Amerikaans volkskarakter in de literatuur --- Amerikaanse zwarten in de literatuur --- Black Americans in literature --- Caractéristiques nationales américaines dans la littérature --- Etats du Sud (Etats-Unis) dans la littérature --- National characteristics [American ] in literature --- Negroes in literature --- Noirs américains dans la littérature --- Race relations in literature --- Racism in literature --- Racisme dans la littérature --- Racisme in de literatuur --- Rassenverhoudingen in de literatuur --- Relations raciales dans la littérature --- Southern States -- In literature --- Southern States in literature --- Volkskarakter [Amerikaans ] in de literatuur --- Zuidelijke Staten (Verenigde Staten) in de literatuur --- Zwarte Amerikanen in de literatuur --- American fiction --- National characteristics, American, in literature --- American literature --- West Indian influences --- White authors&delete& --- History and criticism --- Cable, George Washington, --- Faulkner, William, --- Twain, Mark, --- Tvėn, Mark, --- Tuėĭn, Mark, --- Tuwayn, Mārk, --- Twayn, Mārk, --- Tʻu-wen, Ma-kʻo, --- Tven, M. --- Touen, Makū, --- Twain, Marek, --- Make Tuwen, --- Tuwen, Make, --- Make Teviin, --- Твен, Марк, --- Touain, Mark, --- טבןַ, מרק, --- טוויין, מארק, --- טוויין, מרק, --- טווין, מארק, --- טווין, מרק, --- טווען, מארק, --- טוין, מרק, --- טװען, מארק, --- טװײן, מארק, --- 馬克吐温, --- Clemens, Samuel Langhorne, --- Snodgrass, Quintus Curtius, --- Conte, Louis de, --- Falkner, William, --- Fōkunā, Wiriamu, --- Folkner, Uilʹi︠a︡m, --- Fo-kʻo-na, --- Phōkner, Ouilliam, --- Fo-kʻo-na, Wei-lien, --- Fu-kʻo-na, --- Fu-kʻo-na, Wei-lien, --- Falkner, William Cuthbert, --- Pʻookʻŭnŏ, William, --- Foḳner, Ṿilyam, --- Pʻolkneri, Uiliam, --- K̲apākn̲ar, Villiyam, --- Fāknir, Vīlīyām, --- פוקנר --- פוקנר, וויליאם --- פוקנר, ויליאם, --- פוקנר, ןיליאם --- 福克纳威廉, --- Trueblood, Ernest V., --- Cable, G. W. --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Southern States --- In literature. --- Faulkner, William --- Political and social views --- Twain, Mark --- White authors --- Cable, George Washington --- Фолкнер, Уильям, --- Tuvāyn, Mārk, --- تواين، مارک --- Tvāyn, Mārk, --- Tvėn, Mark --- Tuėĭn, Mark --- Tuwayn, Mārk --- Twayn, Mārk --- Tʻu-wen, Ma-kʻo --- Touen, Makū --- Twain, Marek --- Make Tuwen --- Tuwen, Make --- Make Teviin --- Твен, Марк --- Touain, Mark --- Tuvāyn, Mārk --- Tvāyn, Mārk --- Clemens, Samuel Langhorne --- Snodgrass, Quintus Curtius --- Conte, Louis de

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