Disruption of the Traditional View of the Southern Past in Bobbie Ann Mason’s “Shiloh”

Teresa MORALEJO-GÁRATE

Article Details

Disruption of the Traditional View of the Southern Past in Bobbie Ann Mason’s “Shiloh”

Authors:

Teresa MORALEJO-GÁRATE

Publisher:

American Studies Association of Turkey (ASAT)

Journal:

Journal of American Studies of Turkey 1999 Issue 10, pp.49-58

Document Type:

Article

Publication Date:

9/1999

Document Language:

English

Document ID (Org No.):

2000735214

Frequency:

Bi-Annual

pISSN:

1300-6606

Abstract:

 

A major aspect of what is termed Southern Renaissance literature in the US is  known to be a striking obsession with the past. “The Southern writers of the postFirst World War age,” writes Lewis P. Simpson, “inaugurated a struggle to  comprehend the nature of memory and history, and to assert the redemptive  meaning of the classical-Christian past in its bearing on the present.” So, the  “Southern literary mind . . . began to seek and to symbolize this antagonism in an  image of recovery . . . of memory and history  70 . Such an obsession naturally  brought with it a condemnation of modern times. Almost “all Southern novelists  whose writings have appeared since World War I have criticized the emphasis  modern society has placed on technology and consumer economics,” as Thomas  Daniel Young puts it  1 . Thus, US Southern Renaissance fiction is characterized  by its depiction of the tension, in Southern society, between tradition and  modernity.

Article Details

Disruption of the Traditional View of the Southern Past in Bobbie Ann Mason’s “Shiloh”

Authors: Teresa MORALEJO-GÁRATE

Publisher: American Studies Association of Turkey (ASAT)

Journal: Journal of American Studies of Turkey 1999 Issue 10, pp.49-58

Document Type: Article

Publication Date: 9/1999

Document Language: English

Document ID (Org No.): 2000735214

Frequency: Bi-Annual

pISSN: 1300-6606

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Authors:

Teresa MORALEJO-GÁRATE

Publisher:

American Studies Association of Turkey (ASAT)

Journal:

Journal of American Studies of Turkey 1999 Issue 10, pp.49-58

Document Type:

Article

Publication Date:

9/1999

Document Language:

English

Document ID (Org No.):

2000735214

Frequency:

Bi-Annual

pISSN:

1300-6606