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Overview
In Haunted Bodies, Anne Goodwyn Jones and Susan V. Donaldson have brought together some of our most highly regarded southern historians and literary critics to consider race, gender, and texts through three centuries and from a wealth of vantage points. Works as diversive as eighteenth-century court petitions and lyrics of 1970s rock music demonstrate how definitions of southern masculinity and femininity have been subject to bewildering shifts and disabling contradictions for centuries.
University of Virginia Press
Synopsis
In Haunted Bodies, Anne Goodwyn Jones and Susan V. Donaldson have brought together some of our most highly regarded southern historians and literary critics to consider race, gender, and texts through three centuries and from a wealth of vantage points. Works as diversive as eighteenth-century court petitions and lyrics of 1970s rock music demonstrate how definitions of southern masculinity and femininity have been subject to bewildering shifts and disabling contradictions for centuries.
Booknews
The editors contend that stories of southern bodies<-->from the southern white lady praised for her lack of sexual desire, to black Jezebels and lynching victims accused of too much desire<-->have been structured, to a large extent, by interlocking aspects of gender, race, and class. An eclectic group of contributors interrogate southern texts ranging from late 18th-century accounts of slavery to contemporary fiction by women. They include private diaries by white women, slave narratives, 1970s southern white rock music, and southern women's autobiographies. Paper edition (1726-3), $22.50. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.