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Author Seltzer, Catherine

Title Elizabeth Spencer's complicated cartographies : reimagining home, the South, and southern literary production / Catherine Seltzer
Edition 1st ed
Published New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (x, 207 pages)
Series American literature readings in the 21st century
American literature readings in the 21st century.
Contents Introduction: Backward Glances and Forward Thinking: Reconsidering Elizabeth Spencer -- "A Sure Terrain": Spencer's Mississippi Novels -- Exploding the Can(n)on: The South as "Another County" -- Inhabiting the Unhomely Moment in Jack of Diamonds and Other Stories -- "Radical" Re-Envisionings of Home: The Night Travellers
Summary Elizabeth Spencer has published critically acclaimed fiction for over forty years. Yet in many respects, Spencer's work has existed largely on the margins of the southern canon, whose rigid boundaries cannot easily accommodate her shifting vision of - and relationship to - the South. This book looks at the ways in which Spencer's fiction has evolved in its challenges to these boundaries, questioning conventional notions of home, remapping long-established landscapes of southern identity, and challenging southern literary orthodoxies
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Spencer, Elizabeth, 1921-2019 -- Criticism and interpretation
SUBJECT Spencer, Elizabeth, 1921-2019 fast
Subject Home in literature.
Place (Philosophy) in literature.
Women and literature -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century
Literary essays -- Southeastern & South Atlantic states.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
Literature.
Home in literature
Literature
Place (Philosophy) in literature
Women and literature
SUBJECT Southern States -- In literature
Subject Southern States
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780230623392
0230623395
0230617646
9780230617643