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Feminine Sense in Southern Memoir: Smith, Glasgow, Welty, Hellman, Porter, and Hurston by Will Brantley This study is an intertextual examination of selected self-writings by Lillian Smith, Ellen Glasgow, Eudora Welty, Lillian Hellman, Katherine Anne Porter, and Zora Neale Hurston. Here their memoirs are placed within a context of southern feminism and the more inclusive discourse of modern American liberalism. Will Brantley is a professor of English at Middle Tennessee State University.
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Feminine Sense in Southern Memoir : Smith, Glasgow, Welty, Hellman, Porter, and Hurston
author
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Brantley, Will.
publisher
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University Press of Mississippi
isbn10 | asin
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0878058028
print isbn13
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9780878058020
ebook isbn13
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9780585201535
language
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English
subject
Women authors, American--Southern States--Biography--History and criticism, American prose literature--Southern States--History and criticism, American prose literature--Women authors--History and criticism, American prose literature--20th century--Histor
publication date
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1995
lcc
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PS261.B67 1995eb
ddc
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810.9/9287
subject
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Women authors, American--Southern States--Biography--History and criticism, American prose literature--Southern States--History and criticism, American prose literature--Women authors--History and criticism, American prose literature--20th century--Histor
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Feminine Sense in Southern Memoir
Smith, Glasgow, Welty, Hellman, Porter, and Hurston
Will Brantley
University Press of Mississippi Jackson
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Copyright 1993 by the University Press of Mississippi All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America
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First paperback edition, 1995
The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on library Resources.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Brantley, Will. Feminine sense in Southern memoir: Smith, Glasgow, Welty, Hellman, Porter, and Hurston / Will Brantley. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-87805-614-9 (alk. paper)ISBN 0-87805-802-8 (pbk.: alk. paper) 1. Women authors, AmericanSouthern StatesBiographyHistory and criticism. 2. American prose literatureSouthern States History and criticism. 3. American prose literatureWomen authorsHistory and criticism. 4. American prose literature20th centuryHistory and criticism. 5. Women and literatureSouthern StatesHistory20th century. 6. WomenSouthern States Intellectual life. 7. Femininity (Psychology) in literature. 8. Southern States in literature. 9. AutobiographyWomen authors. I. Title. PS261.B67 1993 810.9'9287dc20 92-39650 CIP
British Library Cataloging-in-Publication data available
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For my parents, Grace Josey Brantley and William Oliver Brantley, Sr.
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Contents
Introduction
ix
1. Southern Women of Letters in the Twentieth Century
3
2. Lillian Smith: The Confessional Tract
38
3. Ellen Glasgow and Eudora Welty: Writing the Sheltered Life
86
4. Lillian Hellman and Katherine Anne Porter: Memoirs from Outside the Shelter
133
5. Zora Neale Hurston: The Ethics of Self-Representation
185
Coda
240
Notes
247
Works Cited
265
Index
281
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Introduction
In 1972 Eudora Welty was asked by the Paris Review if she "ever felt part of a literary community, along with people like Flannery O'Connor, Carson McCullers, Katherine Anne Porter or Caroline Gordon?" Welty's response was what might have been expected: "I'm not sure there's any dotted line connecting us up, though all of us knew about each other and all of us, I think, respected and read each other's work and understood it. And some of us are friends of long standing. I don't think there was any passing about of influences, but there's a lot of pleasure in thinking in whose lifetimes your own lifetime has happened to come along" (Prenshaw, Conversations 80-81). Welty is right: there is no one line of development, but, rather, many lines, many patterns, and many points of intersection. Borrowing Welty's metaphor, my overriding aim in this study is to connect some of the more significant "dots"Welty herself, Ellen Glasgow, Lillian Hellman, Katherine Anne Porter, Lillian Smith, and Zora Neale Hurstonthrough an intertextual examination of selected nonfiction prose that acknowledges each writer's distinctiveness and changing perspectives over a lifetime.
Chapter 1 defines the socio-historical role of the woman of letters in the twentieth-century South; it also explores the ways in which her work has been marginalized by recent intellectual histories.
Chapter 2 explains the significance of Lillian Smith and what I call her confessional tract, Killers of the Dream (1949; revised in 1961). Smith represents a sharp disruption of a conservative critical agenda that has dominated most appraisals of twentieth-century southern writ-
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ing. Smith's ethics, her analyses of women and autobiography, racism and sexism, provide useful points of reference for examining the other writers in this study, each of whom speaks with her own voice of dissent regarding gender norms, problems of race, and patriarchal power structures.
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