Daughters of Time: Creating Woman's Voice in Southern Story - Couverture souple

MacKethan, Lucinda H.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0820314447 ISBN 13 : 9780820314440

Editeur : University of Georgia Press, 1992

Synopsis

Drawing upon letters, autobiographies, and novels, Daughters of Time examines the strategies that various southern women writers have used to create their own "voice," their own unique expression of mind and selfhood. Lucinda H. MacKethan shows that, despite the constraining and muting effects of the South's historically patriarchal society, the region has been graced by the remarkably strong presence of women storytellers, black and white, who have asserted their determination to become themselves through creative acts of voicing. Within a chronological structure, MacKethan examines the letters of the plantation mistress Catherine Hammond; the memoir Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs; the autobiographical writings of Ellen Glasgow, Zora Neale Hurston, and Eudora Welty, as well as their novels Barren Ground, Their Eyes Were Watching God, and The Optimist's Daughter; and finally, Alice Walker's The Co

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À propos de l'auteur

LUCINDA H. MacKETHAN is a professor of English at North Carolina State University and the author of The Dream of Arcady.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Georgia Press
• Date d'édition: 1992
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0820314447
• ISBN 13: 9780820314440
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 144
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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