The Angelic Mother and the Predatory Seductress: Poor White Women in Southern Literature of the Great Depression - Couverture rigide

Lancaster, Ashley Craig

 
9780807144459: The Angelic Mother and the Predatory Seductress: Poor White Women in Southern Literature of the Great Depression
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ISBN 10 : 0807144452 ISBN 13 : 9780807144459
Editeur : Louisiana State University Press, 2012

Synopsis

In The Angelic Mother and the Predatory Seductress, Ashley Craig Lancaster examines how converging political and cultural movements helped to create dualistic images of southern poor white female characters in Depression-era literature. While other studies address the familial and labor issues that challenged female literary characters during the 1930s, Lancaster focuses on how the evolving eugenics movement reinforced the dichotomy of altruistic maternal figures and destructive sexual deviants.
According to Lancaster, these binary stereotypes became a new analogy for hope and despair in America's future and were well utilized by Depression-era politicians and authors to stabilize the country's economic decline. As a result, the complexity of women's lives was often overlooked in favor of stock characters incapable of individuality.
Lancaster studies a variety of works, including those by male authors William Faulkner, Erskine Caldwell, and John Steinbeck, as well as female novelists Mary Heaton Vorse, Myra Page, Grace Lumpkin, and Olive Tilford Dargan. She identifies female stereotypes in classics such as To Kill a Mockingbird and in the work of later writers Dorothy Allison and Rick Bragg, who embrace and share in a poor white background.
The Angelic Mother and the Predatory Seductress reveals that these literary stereotypes continue to influence not only society's perception of poor white southern women but also women's perception of themselves.

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À propos de l'auteur

Ashley Craig Lancaster has published articles in the Journal of Dracula Studies, Midwest Quarterly, and Southern Literary Journal. She is an English instructor at Itawamba Community College in Fulton, Mississippi.

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Éditeur
Louisiana State University Press
Date d'édition
2012
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0807144452
ISBN 13 
9780807144459
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
240
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