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World War I and Southern Modernism (Paperback)
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World War I and Southern Modernism (Paperback)
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Winner of the 2018 Eudora Welty Prize. When the United States
entered World War I, parts of the country had developed industries,
urban cultures, and democratic political systems, but the South
lagged behind, remaining an impoverished, agriculture region.
Despite New South boosterism, the culture of the early
twentieth-century South was comparatively artistically arid. Yet,
southern writers dominated the literary marketplace by the 1920s
and 1930s. World War I brought southerners into contact with
modernity before the South fully modernized. This shortfall created
an inherent tension between the region's existing agricultural
social structure and the processes of modernization, leading to
distal modernism, a form of writing that combines elements of
modernism to depict non-modern social structures. Critics have
struggled to formulate explanations for the eruption of modern
southern literature, sometimes called the Southern Renaissance.
Pinpointing World War I as the catalyst, David A. Davis argues
southern modernism was not a self-generating outburst of writing,
but a response to the disruptions modernity generated in the
region. In World War I and Southern Modernism, Davis examines
dozens of works of literature by writers, including William
Faulkner, Ellen Glasgow, and Claude McKay, that depict the South
during the war. Topics explored in the book include contact between
the North and the South, southerners who served in combat, and the
developing southern economy. Davis also provides a new lens for
this argument, taking a closer look at African Americans in the
military and changing gender roles.
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