All Outputs (11)
Gothic Appalachia (2016)
Book Chapter
This book examines ‘Southern Gothic’ - a term that describes some of the finest works of the American Imagination. But what do ‘Southern’ and ‘Gothic’ mean, and how are they related? Traditionally seen as drawing on the tragedy of slavery and loss, ‘... Read More about Gothic Appalachia.
William Gay, agrarianism and environmentalism (2015)
Journal Article
Reading race and miscegenation in The Sound and The Fury (2014)
Book Chapter
Poverty and progress (2013)
Book Chapter
The memorialization of southern poor white men's labor in rick bragg's memoir trilogy (2013)
Journal Article
This article explores the ways that Rick Bragg memorializes poor white men's labor across his memoir trilogy, examining the tensions that arise as he attempts to bring poor whites into the center of the southern community. I consider the neo-Agrarian... Read More about The memorialization of southern poor white men's labor in rick bragg's memoir trilogy.
Poor whites in recent southern fiction (2012)
Journal Article
Poor white characters have appeared throughout southern fiction in a number of guises. This article examines the ways in which contemporary depictions of poor whites challenge earlier one-dimensional accounts of this economically disenfranchised grou... Read More about Poor whites in recent southern fiction.
Accessing blood-knowledge in Katherine Anne Porter's The Old Order (2009)
Journal Article
The secret country: Prohibited desire and social change in Jayne Anne Phillips' "Bess" (2002)
Journal Article