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Postregional Fictions - Barry Hannah and the Challenges of Southern Studies (Hardcover)
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Postregional Fictions - Barry Hannah and the Challenges of Southern Studies (Hardcover)
Series: Southern Literary Studies
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Drawing from recent debates about the validity of regional studies
and skepticism surrounding the efficacy of the concept of
authenticity, Clare Chadd's Postregional Fictions focuses on
questions of southern regional authenticity in fiction published by
Barry Hannah from 1972 to 2001. The first monograph on the
Mississippi author's work to appear since his death, this study
considers the ways in which Hannah's novels and short stories
challenge established conceptual understandings of the U.S. South.
Hannah's writing often features elements of metafiction, through
which the putative sense of ""southernness"" his stories dramatize
is complicated by an intense self-reflexivity about the extent to
which a sense of place has never been foundational or essential but
has always been constructed and performed. Such texts locate a
productive terrain between the local and the global, with
particular relevance for critical apprehensions of the post-South
and postsouthern literature. Offering sustained close readings of
selected stories, and focusing especially on Hannah's late work,
Chadd argues that his fiction reveals the region constantly
shifting in a process of mythmaking, dialogue, and performance. In
turn, she uses Hannah's work to suggest how notions of the
""South"" and ""southernness"" might survive the various
deconstructive approaches leveled against them in recent decades of
southern studies scholarship. Rather than seeing an impasse between
the regional and the global, Chadd's reading of Hannah shows the
two existing and flourishing in tandem. In Postregional Fictions,
Chadd offers a new interpretation of Hannah based on an
appreciation of the vital intersection of southern and postmodern
elements in his work.
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