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Entitled to the pedestal : place, race, and progress in white Southern women's writing, 1920-1945 / Nghana Tamu Lewis.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, 2007.Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 208 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781587297328
  • 1587297329
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Entitled to the pedestal.DDC classification:
  • 810.992870975 22
LOC classification:
  • PS261 .L47 2007eb
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Contents:
The ladies and the myths : white Southern women's writing -- A white black writer : Julia Mood Peterkin -- A certain mental aberration : Gwen Bristow -- She'll take her stand : Caroline Gordon -- Paving the way : Willa Cather and Lillian Smith -- New beginnings : old sites of authority.
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Summary: Nghana Lewis offers a close reading of the works and private correspondences, essays, and lectures of five southern white women writers: Julia Peterkin, Gwen Bristow, Caroline Gordon, Willa Cather, and Lillian Smith. At the core of this work is a sophisticated reexamination of the myth of southern white womanhood.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-201) and index.

The ladies and the myths : white Southern women's writing -- A white black writer : Julia Mood Peterkin -- A certain mental aberration : Gwen Bristow -- She'll take her stand : Caroline Gordon -- Paving the way : Willa Cather and Lillian Smith -- New beginnings : old sites of authority.

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Nghana Lewis offers a close reading of the works and private correspondences, essays, and lectures of five southern white women writers: Julia Peterkin, Gwen Bristow, Caroline Gordon, Willa Cather, and Lillian Smith. At the core of this work is a sophisticated reexamination of the myth of southern white womanhood.

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