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+ african american literature, benton's row, black reconstruction, frank yerby, southern history, southern literature

Subverting the Lost Cause Narrative in Frank Yerby’s “Benton’s Row”

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Whenever I go to a used bookstore, I always check to see if they have any books by Frank Yerby, mainly because I research his work and I also collect any book I can find by him. Inevitably, no matter where I find one of Yerby’s novels, it is always one of his “costume novels,” his historical novels, typically set in the antebellum South. … Read More Subverting the Lost Cause Narrative in Frank Yerby’s “Benton’s Row”

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+ Erskine Caldwell, interracial intimacy, interracial marriage, pulp, southern literature

Erskine Caldwell’s “Close to Home” and Interracial Intimacy

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One of the things that frustrates me about living in Paris for a set amount of time is that I can’t buy all of the books that I want to buy. For example, I’ve been to most of the English language bookshops multiple times, just looking around, and buying very little. I did pick up James Baldwin’s No Name in the Street at Shakespeare … Read More Erskine Caldwell’s “Close to Home” and Interracial Intimacy

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+ a late encounter with the enemy, civil war, flannery o'connor, history, lost cause, southern gothic, southern history, southern literature

The Death of the Lost Cause in Flannery O’Connor’s “A Late Encounter With the Enemy”

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Last post, I looked at the ways that Flannery O’Connor confronts the Lost Cause Narrative in “A Late Encounter With the Enemy.” Today, I want to expand upon that discussion some by looking, specifically, at the end of the story when we see Sally and George at her college graduation. In this scene, which takes up the latter quarter of the story, George sits … Read More The Death of the Lost Cause in Flannery O’Connor’s “A Late Encounter With the Enemy”

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The Lost Cause in Flannery O’Connor’s “A Late Encounter with the Enemy”

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When I started thinking about my American literary survey course this semester, I knew I wanted to have a story by Flannery O’Connor, partly because I teach in Georgia but also because I wanted to students to see her and other Southern writers in conversation with one another. I thought about doing “A Good Man is Hard to Find” or “Revelation,”but I chose a different story. … Read More The Lost Cause in Flannery O’Connor’s “A Late Encounter with the Enemy”

+ A Worn Path, dry september, ernest j gaines, eudora welty, southern, southern literature, the sky is gray, william faulkner

Nothing Happens in Eudora Welty’s “A Worn Path”

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As I was organizing my American literature survey course this semester, I knew that I wanted to center it on short stories. I did this because I wanted to provide students with a broad swath of literature and literary movements from 1865 to the present. With this in mind, I knew, as well, that I wanted to include Ernest Gaines’ “The Sky is Gray,” because, like … Read More Nothing Happens in Eudora Welty’s “A Worn Path”

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