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Item specifics
- Condition
- ISBN
- 9780807169957
- Subject Area
- Literary Criticism, Art, History
- Publication Name
- Reading Reconstruction : Sherwood Bonner and the Literature of the Post-Civil War South
- Publisher
- LSU
- Item Length
- 9 in
- Subject
- Women Authors, Criticism & Theory, United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877), American / General, American / Regional
- Publication Year
- 2019
- Series
- Southern Literary Studies
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.8 in
- Item Weight
- 22 Oz
- Item Width
- 6 in
- Number of Pages
- 368 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
LSU
ISBN-10
0807169951
ISBN-13
9780807169957
eBay Product ID (ePID)
28038686258
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
368 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Reading Reconstruction : Sherwood Bonner and the Literature of the Post-Civil War South
Publication Year
2019
Subject
Women Authors, Criticism & Theory, United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877), American / General, American / Regional
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Literary Criticism, Art, History
Series
Southern Literary Studies
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.8 in
Item Weight
22 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2018-019076
Reviews
Reading Reconstruction is more than a book on Sherwood Bonner or Reconstruction. It is a book about the complex, shifting identity politics of both Bonner's time and our own--identity particularly in terms of race, gender, and region. As such, it will certainly have a broad impact in southern studies and gender studies. It is a book that helps us think about America itself., Kathryn B. McKee's sensitive and cogent study of Sherwood Bonner and her world offers a timely reconsideration of one of the postbellum era's most intriguing writers. By situating Bonner's work in the tumultuous decades following the Civil War, McKee provides a sophisticated account of Bonner's attempt to find meaning and stability, both in her writings and in her personal life, when everything seemed up for grabs and nothing had been determined. Reconstruction-era scholars would do well to read this engaging study, not only for what it has to say about the world the Civil War made and Bonner's efforts to negotiate it, but for its clear-eyed reflection on our own time.
Synopsis
Kathryn B. McKee's Reading Reconstruction situates Mississippi writer Katharine Sherwood Bonner McDowell (1849-1883) as an astute cultural observer throughout the 1870s and 1880s who portrayed the discord and uneasiness of the Reconstruction era in her fiction and nonfiction works. McKee reveals conflicts in Bonner's writing as her newfound feminism clashes with her resurgent racism, two forces widely prevalent and persistently oppositional throughout the late nineteenth century. Reading Reconstruction begins by tracing the historical contexts that defined Bonner's life in postwar Holly Springs. McKee explores how questions of race, gender, and national citizenship permeated Bonner's social milieu and provided subject matter for her literary works. Examining Bonner's writing across multiple genres, McKee finds that the author's wry but dark humor satirizes the foibles and inconsistencies of southern culture. Bonner's travel letters, first from Boston and then from the capitals of Europe, show her both embracing and performing her role as a southern woman, before coming to see herself as simply "American" when abroad. Like unto Like, the single novel she published in her lifetime, directly engages with Mississippi's postbellum political life, especially its racial violence and the rise of Lost Cause ideology. Her two short story collections, including the raucously comic pieces in Dialect Tales and the more nostalgic Suwanee River Tales, indicate her consistent absorption in the debates of her time, as she ponders shifting definitions of citizenship, questions the evolving rhetoric of postwar reconciliation, and readily employs humor to disrupt conventional domestic scenarios and gender roles. In the end, Bonner's writing offers a telling index of the paradoxes and irresolution of the period, advocating for a feminist reinterpretation of traditional gender hierarchies, but verging only reluctantly on the questions of racial equality that nonetheless unsettle her plots. By challenging traditional readings of postbellum southern literature, McKee offers a long-overdue reassessment of Sherwood Bonner's place in American literary history., Kathryn B. McKee?s Reading Reconstruction situates Mississippi writer Katharine Sherwood Bonner McDowell (1849?1883) as an astute cultural observer throughout the 1870s and 1880s who portrayed the discord and uneasiness of the Reconstruction era in her fiction and nonfiction works. McKee reveals conflicts in Bonner?s writing as her newfound feminism clashes with her resurgent racism, two forces widely prevalent and persistently oppositional throughout the late nineteenth century. Reading Reconstruction begins by tracing the historical contexts that defined Bonner?s life in postwar Holly Springs. McKee explores how questions of race, gender, and national citizenship permeated Bonner?s social milieu and provided subject matter for her literary works. Examining Bonner?s writing across multiple genres, McKee finds that the author?s wry but dark humor satirizes the foibles and inconsistencies of southern culture. Bonner?s travel letters, first from Boston and then from the capitals of Europe, show her both embracing and performing her role as a southern woman, before coming to see herself as simply ?American? when abroad. Like unto Like, the single novel she published in her lifetime, directly engages with Mississippi?s postbellum political life, especially its racial violence and the rise of Lost Cause ideology. Her two short story collections, including the raucously comic pieces in Dialect Tales and the more nostalgic Suwanee River Tales, indicate her consistent absorption in the debates of her time, as she ponders shifting definitions of citizenship, questions the evolving rhetoric of postwar reconciliation, and readily employs humor to disrupt conventional domestic scenarios and gender roles. In the end, Bonner?s writing offers a telling index of the paradoxes and irresolution of the period, advocating for a feminist reinterpretation of traditional gender hierarchies, but verging only reluctantly on the questions of racial equality that nonetheless unsettle her plots. By challenging traditional readings of postbellum southern literature, McKee offers a long-overdue reassessment of Sherwood Bonner?s place in American literary history.
LC Classification Number
PS2358.M38 2018
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