The Postsouthern Sense of Place in Contemporary Fiction

by Martyn Bone

Book Overview

For generations, southern novelists and critics have grappled with a concept that is widely seen as a trademark of their literature: a strong attachment to geography, or a "sense of place." In the 1930s, the Agrarians accorded special meaning to rural life, particularly the farm, in their definitions of southern identity. For them, the South seemed an organic and rooted region in contrast to the North, where real estate development and urban sprawl...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807156345
• ISBN13: 9780807156346
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.87 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"