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World War I and Southern Modernity (Hardcover)
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World War I and Southern Modernity (Hardcover)
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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. ,br> 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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