Southscapes: Geographies of Race, Region, and Literature

by Thadious M. Davis

Book Overview

In this innovative approach to southern literary cultures, Thadious Davis analyzes how black southern writers use their spatial location to articulate the vexed connections between society and environment, particularly under segregation and its legacies.

Basing her analysis on texts by Ernest Gaines, Richard Wright, Alice Walker, Natasha Trethewey, Olympia Vernon, Brenda Marie Osbey, Sybil Kein, and others, Davis reveals how these writers...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1469621959
• ISBN13: 9781469621951
• Release Date: December 2014
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 472 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.1"