Ordering the Facade: Photography and Contemporary Southern Women's Writing

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Focusing on visual and written images of "the southern woman," Henninger analyzes photography's literary functions in memoir, fiction, screenwriting, and poetry by a wide range of contemporary authors including Dorothy Allison, Ann Beattie, Rosemary Daniell, Julie Dash, Ronlyn Domingue, Josephine Humphreys, Jill McCorkle, Lee Smith, Natasha Trethewey, Anne Tyler, and Alice Walker. As each of these writers distinctively re-envisions traditional constructions of southern womanhood, Henninger shows, she joins the ...

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Overview

Focusing on visual and written images of "the southern woman," Henninger analyzes photography's literary functions in memoir, fiction, screenwriting, and poetry by a wide range of contemporary authors including Dorothy Allison, Ann Beattie, Rosemary Daniell, Julie Dash, Ronlyn Domingue, Josephine Humphreys, Jill McCorkle, Lee Smith, Natasha Trethewey, Anne Tyler, and Alice Walker. As each of these writers distinctively re-envisions traditional constructions of southern womanhood, Henninger shows, she joins the others in challenging the constrictions of "southern woman" and so changing the meaning of southernness itself.

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"Succeeds brilliantly in leading the way for future examiniations of the 'New South.'"
— Southern Humanities Review

"Innovative in its hybridity, its interweaving of the visual and the literary."
— The Journal of Southern History

"Contemporary writing by southern women emerges vividly in Henninger's analysis. . . . [Henninger] joins others in challenging the constrictions of southern women and so changing the meaning of southernness itself."
— Tiger Weekly

"From start to finish a notably strong and stimulating contribution to literary and cultural studies of the American South."
— Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature

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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780807831120
  • Publisher: University of North Carolina Press, The
  • Publication date: 4/9/2007
  • Series: New Directions in Southern Studies
  • Pages: 256
  • Product dimensions: 6.30 (w) x 9.30 (h) x 1.00 (d)

Meet the Author

Katherine Henninger is assistant professor of American literature at Louisiana State University.

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Table of Contents

Contents

Foreword by Charles Reagan Wilson
Acknowledgments
Introduction. Visual Legacies of the South
1 A Short and Selected History of Photography in the South
2 The Death of the Southern Male Gaze?: White Ladies' Cultured Revisionings
3 Cameras and the Racial Real: Photographs as Evidence and Assertion in African American Southern Fiction
4 Envisioning "White Trash": Excess and Access in Appalachia
5 Re-imaging Southern Communities, or, Picturing the Post-South
Epilogue. Buscando New Orleans (Looking for New Orleans)
Notes
Works Cited
Index

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