" In the South, railroads have two meanings: they are an
economic force that can sustain a town and they are a metaphor for
the process of southern industrialization. Recognizing this
duality, Joseph Millichap's Dixie Limited is a detailed reading of
the complex and often ambivalent relationships among technology,
culture, and literature that railroads represent in selected
writers and works of the Southern Renaissance. Tackling such
Southern Renaissance giants as Thomas Wolfe, Eudora Welty, Robert
Penn Warren, and William Faulkner, Millichap mingles traditional
American and Southern studies -- in their emphases on literary
appreciation and evaluation in terms of national and regional
concerns -- with contemporary cultural meaning in terms of gender,
race, and class. Millichap juxtaposes Faulkner's
semi-autobiographical families with Wolfe's fiction, which
represents changing attitudes toward the "Southern Other."
Faulkner's later fiction is compared to that of Warren, Welty, and
Ellison, and Warren's later poetry moves toward the contemporary
post-Southernism of Dave Smith. These disparate examples suggest
the subject of the final chapter -- the continuing search for
post-Southern patterns of persistence and change that reiterate,
reject, and perhaps reconfigure the Southern Renaissance. As we
enter the twenty-first century, that we recall how much the
twentieth-century South was shaped by railroads built in the
nineteenth century. It is also important that we recognize how much
our future will be determined by the technological and cultural
tracks we lay.
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