The Postsouthern Sense of Place in Contemporary Fiction

by Martyn Bone

Book Overview

In this innovative book, Martyn Bone explores perspectives of the southern "sense of place" and examines it in a national and global context. Bone assesses work of Neo-Agrarian writers William Faulkner and Eudora Welty, as well as more recent responses to the impact of capitalist spatial development on the South-including the self-declared "international city" of Atlanta. Close readings of novels by Robert Penn Warren, Walker Percy, Richard Ford,...

• 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"