To hell and back : race and betrayal in the southern novel / Jeff Abernathy.

Author: Abernathy, Jeff, 1964-

Imprint:Athens : University of Georgia Press, c2003.

Descriptionxii, 225 p. ; 23 cm.

Note:Introduction : crossroad blues. - A raft of hope : Mark Twain's southern strategy. - Dirty books for Yankees : William Faulkner and Elizabeth Spencer respond to southern unrest. - Divided hearts : Carson McCullers and Harper Lee explore racial uncertainty. - Passing through darkness : Sara Flanigan and Kaye Gibbons search for hope. - Absurdity : Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, and Alice Walker confront a mythology of race. - "Ain't no motif" : Padgett Powell, Ellen Douglas, and W. Glasgow Phillips narrate a postmodern South. - Coda : in a southern accent.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. [207]-216) and index.

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