Downhome: An Anthology of Southern Women Writers - Brossura

Mee, Susie

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0156001217 ISBN 13: 9780156001212

Casa editrice: Houghton Mifflin, 2009

Riassunto

Women writers past and present, including Ellen Gilchrist, Bobbie Ann Mason, Katherine Anne Porter, and Elizabeth Spencer, are featured in an unique anthology of twenty-one short stories that explores the complex experience of being Southern and female. Original.

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The South - within its diversity of voices and experiences lies "a shared legacy: the act of speech - of stories handed down in which a distinctive language is honored, a language rich in Biblical and regional contexts; the love of place where individuals, relationships, and family histories not only matter but buttress everyday life. Both are part of that rarest and most indispensable groundspring of literature, memory. The memory of being 'Downhome.'" Susie Mee has gathered a wealth of short fiction by southern women who - from their various backgrounds, from their different eras - draw on that shared legacy she describes in her introduction. That memory of "downhome", whether it is used lovingly or ironically, echoes throughout the seven sections here, which range from Growing Up to Kinfolk and Courtship to Passing On, and in the words of these special authors.

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• Editore: Houghton Mifflin
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0156001217
• ISBN 13: 9780156001212
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 516