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Ordering the Facade: Photography and Contemporary Southern Women's Writing (New Directions in Southern Studies)
Katherine Henninger
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Description for Ordering the Facade: Photography and Contemporary Southern Women's Writing (New Directions in Southern Studies)
Paperback. Proposing a different way to map intersections of photography and American literature, this work demonstrates the importance of pinpointing specific cultural and subcultural history. It traces the visual and literary cultures of southern womanhood that have ordered the image of "the South". Series: New Directions in Southern Studies. Num Pages: 280 pages, 37 illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; AJ; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 16. Weight in Grams: 372.
Proposing a new way to map intersections of photography and American literature, Katherine Henninger demonstrates the importance of pinpointing specific cultural and subcultural history. ""Ordering the Facade"" traces the visual and literary cultures of southern womanhood that have ordered the image of ""the South"" from its plantation past to its ""postsouthern"" present. Assessed in light of these visual legacies, contemporary writing by southern women emerges vividly in Henninger's analysis as both shaped by and shaping these continuously powerful representations. Typically celebrated for their oral traditions, Henninger argues, the South and its literature have in fact primarily relied on visual characteristics ... Read more
Proposing a new way to map intersections of photography and American literature, Katherine Henninger demonstrates the importance of pinpointing specific cultural and subcultural history. ""Ordering the Facade"" traces the visual and literary cultures of southern womanhood that have ordered the image of ""the South"" from its plantation past to its ""postsouthern"" present. Assessed in light of these visual legacies, contemporary writing by southern women emerges vividly in Henninger's analysis as both shaped by and shaping these continuously powerful representations. Typically celebrated for their oral traditions, Henninger argues, the South and its literature have in fact primarily relied on visual characteristics ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Condition
New
Series
New Directions in Southern Studies
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Chapel Hill, United States
ISBN
9780807858059
SKU
V9780807858059
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About Katherine Henninger
KATHERINE HENNINGER is assistant professor of American literature at Louisiana State University.
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