reimagining home, the South, and southern literary production /
Catherine Seltzer.
1st ed.
New York, NY :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2009.
x, 207 pages ;
22 cm.
American literature readings in the 21st century
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"A sure terrain": Spencer's Mississippi novels -- Exploding the Can(n)on: The light in the piazza -- Inhabiting the unhomely moment in Jack of diamonds and other stories -- "Radical" re-envisionings of home.
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Elizabeth Spencer has published critically acclaimed fiction for over forty years. Yet in many respects, Spencer's work has existed largely on the margins of the southern canon, whose rigid boundaries cannot easily accommodate her shifting vision of--and relationship to--the South. This book looks at the ways in which Spencer's fiction has evolved in its challenges to these boundaries, questioning conventional notions of home, remapping long-established landscapes of southern identity, and challenging southern literary orthodoxies. --From cover.
Spencer, Elizabeth,1921-Criticism and interpretation.
Spencer, Elizabeth (Schriftstellerin)
Spencer, Elizabeth,1921-
Home in literature.
Place (Philosophy) in literature.
Women and literature-- Southern States-- History-- 20th century.