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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Lancaster, Ashley Craig (1979-....)
Titre(s) : The angelic mother and the predatory seductress [Texte imprimé] : poor white women in Southern literature of the Great Depression / Ashley Craig Lancaster
Publication : Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, c2012
Description matérielle : x, 225 p. ; 23 cm
Collection : Southern literary studies
Lien à la collection : Southern literary studies
Comprend : Eugenics and politics: unlikely unions and the stereotyping of the Southern poor white
woman ; Questioning the eugenic agenda: Faulkner, Caldwell, and Steinbeck: three
responses to America's "social responsibility" ; Making the eugenic "myth" a reality:
the fictionalizing of Depression-era documentary work ; Up from eugenics: the Gastonia
novels and the redefining of the Southern poor white woman.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-216) and index
"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."--Publisher's
website
Sujet(s) : Littérature américaine -- États-Unis (sud)
Pauvres en milieu rural -- Dans la littérature
Littérature et société -- États-Unis (sud) -- 20e siècle
États-Unis (sud) -- Dans la littérature
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780807144459 (cloth) (alk. paper). - ISBN 0807144452 (cloth) (alk. paper). -
ISBN 9780807144466 (pdf). - ISBN 0807144460 (pdf). - ISBN 9780807144473 (epub). -
ISBN 0807144479 (epub). - ISBN 9780807144480 (mobi). - ISBN 0807144487 (mobi)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb427322280
Notice n° :
FRBNF42732228
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
