Reclaiming the American Farmer: The Reinvention of a Regional Mythology in Twentieth-Century Southern WritingLSU Press, 2006年5月1日 - 200 頁 In this stimulating study, Mary Weaks-Baxter views the Southern Renaissance, 1900--1960, from a fresh perspective. Many writers in the South began consciously to create new myths for the region at the start of the twentieth century, and these myths, Weaks-Baxter argues, reframed southern history and culture. Instead of being rooted in the plantation culture that had provided inspiration for nineteenth-century southern writers, the new literature was inspired by "southern folk," the common people who farmed the earth and whose values derived from Jeffersonian agrarianism and democracy. By glorifying the yeoman farmer -- a figure not only central to southern life but revered throughout the country -- southern writers confirmed the essential Americanness of southern literature and the southernness of American history, creating a viable myth that offered the promise of renewal and purpose. |
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Ellen Glasgows Virginia Farmers 6 | 16 |
Taking Their Stand | 37 |
A Farmer Singing at the Plow | 79 |
Womens Novels | 96 |
Reinventing Faulkner 5 | 115 |
Southern American Migrants | 136 |
WORKS CITED 75 | 175 |