The Female Tradition in Southern Literature
Cutting a feminist swath through orthodox readings of southern literature
Paper – $24
978-0-252-06444-9
Publication Date
Paperback: 01/01/1994
About the Book
With southern literary studies dominated by names like Faulkner and Warren, women writers are treated as second tier by critics and scholars, reduced to tokenism in studies and seen through the viewpoint of male writers. Carol S. Manning curates sixteen essays that look at 100 years of southern writers through a feminist lens. The contributors challenge entrenched theory, illuminate the neglected female tradition in southern literature, and discuss not only well known figures like Carson McCullers and Zora Neale Hurston but underrated authors like Olive Dargan and Beatrice Ravenel.Contributors: Doris Betts; Mary Hughes Brookhart; Jan Cooper; Thadious M. Davis; Susan V. Donaldson; Anna Shannon Elfenbein; Jill Fritz-Piggot; Suzanne W. Jones; Carol S. Manning; Lisa Nanney; Peggy Whitman Prenshaw; Joan Schulz; Ruth M. Vande Kieft; Louise Westling; Mary Ann Wimsatt;
About the Author
Carol S. Manning is Professor Emerita of English at Mary Washington College and the author of With Ears Opening Like Morning Glories: Eudora Welty and the Love of Storytelling.Reviews
"Original and thought provoking. Insists that territory long staked out by male critics for male writers be surveyed all over again, first to make room for the female tradition and second to recognize that it is not separate but part of a whole."--Mary C. Williams, Spectator"Reviews and challenges almost a century of scholarship on southern literature. The contributors listen closely to many less familiar voices--urgent voices that had been drowned out by the domineering bass."--Joan Wylie Hall, South Atlantic Review
Blurbs
"Distinguished. . . . These essays reclaim women's traditions which have been neglected by critics who ought to have known better."--Kathryn Lee Seidel, author of The Southern Belle in the American Novel
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