Poverty Politics: Poor Whites in Contemporary Southern Writing
(2019)
Book
Robertson, S. (2019). Poverty Politics: Poor Whites in Contemporary Southern Writing. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi
Sarah Robertson
Sarah Robertson
Associate Professor of English Literature
Gothic Appalachia (2016)
Book Chapter
Robertson, S. (2016). Gothic Appalachia. In S. Castillo, & C. Crow (Eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of the Southern Gothic. , (109-120). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-47774-3_9This 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
Robertson, S. (2015). William Gay, agrarianism and environmentalism. Mississippi Quarterly, 68(3-4), 359-375
Reading race and miscegenation in The Sound and The Fury (2014)
Book Chapter
Robertson, S. (2014). Reading race and miscegenation in The Sound and The Fury. In T. Hagood (Ed.), Critical Insights: The Sound and the Fury, 158-174. Grey House Publishing
Poverty and progress (2013)
Book Chapter
Robertson, S. (2013). Poverty and progress. In S. Monteith (Ed.), The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of the American South, 104-115. Cambridge University Press
The memorialization of southern poor white men's labor in rick bragg's memoir trilogy (2013)
Journal Article
Robertson, S. (2013). The memorialization of southern poor white men's labor in rick bragg's memoir trilogy. Journal of American Studies, 47(2), 459-474. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021875812001302This 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
Robertson, S. (2012). Poor whites in recent southern fiction. Literature Compass, 9(10), 631-641. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1741-4113.2012.00920.xPoor 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
Robertson, S. (2009). Accessing blood-knowledge in Katherine Anne Porter's The Old Order. Mississippi Quarterly, 62(1/2), 247-264
The green, green hills of home: Representations of mining in appalachian and welsh fiction (2007)
Book Chapter
Robertson, S. (2007). The green, green hills of home: Representations of mining in appalachian and welsh fiction. In R. Gray, & W. Zacharasiewicz (Eds.), Transatlantic Exchanges: The American South in Europe, Europe in the American SouthThe Austrian Academy of the Sciences
The Secret Country: Decoding Jayne Anne Phillips' Cryptic Fiction (2007)
Book
Robertson, S. (2007). The Secret Country: Decoding Jayne Anne Phillips' Cryptic Fiction. Amsterdam: Rodopi