"Perspectives on Barry Hannah" is a collection of essays devoted
to the work of the award-winning fiction writer Barry Hannah. The
anthology features a broad range of critical approaches and covers
the span of Hannah's career from "Geronimo Rex" (1972) to "Yonder
Stands Your Orphan" (2001). The book also includes a previously
unpublished interview with Hannah.
The ten essays cover all of Hannah's thirteen published books.
The contributors give fresh perspectives on Hannah's classic works
("Airships" and "Ray"), provide illuminating readings of important
fiction that has received less critical attention ("Nighwatchmen,"
"Hey Jack ," and "Never Die"), and offer the first sustained
criticism of Hannah's acclaimed later fiction ("Bats Out of Hell,"
"High Lonesome," and "Yonder Stands Your Orphan"). As Martyn Bone
explains in his introduction, the essays--though varied in approach
and style--consistently hone in on the recurrent themes that
characterize Hannah's career: his relationship to postmodernism;
his interrogation of traditional ideas of masculinity and heroism;
his complex engagement with southern history, literature, and
culture; and his growing concern with spirituality and
morality.
The essays in "Perspectives on Barry Hannah" make connections
between Hannah's work and that of several prominent modern and
postmodern authors, including William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway,
James Joyce, Allen Tate, John Irving, J. M. Coetzee, and Cormac
McCarthy. Contributors also consider Hannah's fiction in relation
to non-literary cultural forms such as sport, film, and popular
music. Ultimately, "Perspectives on Barry Hannah" affirms Hannah's
status as a leading figure in contemporary American literature.
Martyn Bone is assistant professor of American literature at the
Institute for English, German, and Romance Languages at the
University of Copenhagen. His previous publications include "The
Postsouthern Sense of Place in Contemporary Fiction."
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