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| Nationalism and the Color Line in George W. Cable, Mark Twain, and William Faulkner | | Author: | Barbara Ladd | ISBN: | 0807120650 | Format: | Handover | Publish Date: | June, 2005 | | | | | | | | | Book Review | | | Nationalism and the Color Line in George W. Cable, Mark Twain, and William Faulkner FROM THE PUBLISHER Nationalism and the Color Line in George W. Cable, Mark Twain, and William Faulkner is a strikingly original study of works by three postbellum novelists with strong ties to the Deep South and Mississippi Valley. In it, Barbara Ladd argues that writers like Cable, Twain, and Faulkner cannot be read exclusively within the context of a nationalistically defined "American" literature, but must also be understood in light of the cultural legacy that French and Spanish colonialism bestowed on the Deep South and the Mississippi River Valley, specifically with respect to the very different ways these colonialist cultures conceptualized race, color, and nationality.
FROM THE CRITICS Booknews
Ladd (American literature, Emory U.) examines the issues of race and
nationalism in the work of three postbellum novelists with strong
ties to the Deep South and the Mississippi Valley, arguing that their
writing cannot be read exclusively within the context of a
nationalistically defined American literature, but must also be
understood in light of the cultural legacy that French and Spanish
colonialism bestowed on the region.
Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
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