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Arranging stories : framing social commentary in short story collections by Southern women writers / Heather A. Fox.

"Between the 1880s and the 1940s, opportunities for southern white women writers increased dramatically, bolstered by readers' demands for southern stories in northern periodicals. Confined by magazine requirements and social expectations, writers often relied on regional settings and trop...

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Main Author: Fox, Heather A. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2022]
Subjects:
American literature > Southern States > History and criticism.
American literature > Women authors > History and criticism.
Social justice in literature.
Short story.
American literature.
American literature > Women authors.
Southern States.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Literary criticism.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: arranging stories as a frame for social commentary
  • Mapping spacial consciousness in Kate Chopin's Bayou Folk (1894)
  • Advocating for social justice in Ellen Glasgow's The Shadowy Third and Other Stories (1923)
  • Preserving the hammock in Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings's When the Whippoorwill (1940)
  • Reconstructing memory in Katherine Anne Porter's The Old Order Stories (1944, 1955, 1965)
  • Epilogue: reading arrangement.

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