Since 1980 the South has experienced a tremendous resurgence in
fiction by women--black and white, rich and poor, from the Deep
South and from Appalachia. This revival marks a critical stage in
the development of southern literature, for it offers a
revisionary, multicultural, feminist, yet still traditionally
southern perspective. A Southern Weave of Women is one of the first
sustained treatments of the generation of women writers who came of
age in the post-World War II South as well as one of the first to
situate southern literature fully within a multicultural context.
Linda Tate considers the ways in which the women writers of the
present generation reflect, expand, transform, and redefine
long-standing notions of regional culture and womanhood. Focusing
on women who suggest the regional, class, and ethnic diversity of
contemporary southern writing, Tate discusses such writers as Jill
McCorkle, Shay Youngblood, Ellen Douglas, Dori Sanders, Rita Mae
Brown, Lee Smith, Alice Walker, Bobbie Ann Mason, Linda Beatrice
Brown, and Kaye Gibbons. As these women carve out new definitions
of southern womanhood, Tate contends, they also look for ways to
retain what is valuable about past conceptions while seeking to
revise and expand the traditional roles. In doing so, they
reconsider their relationships to home, family, and other southern
women; to issues of race and class in the South; to women's
obscured role in the region's past; and to the southern land
itself. Situating the works of these writers within a larger social
context, Tate examines their misinterpretation by male filmmakers
and lauds the corrective role that small and independent presses
have played in providing a vehicle through which myopic male
visions of southern women might be countered.
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