Description: As she moves from the Depression to the nascent years of the civil rights movement to the early cold war era, Duck explains how experimental writers in each of these periods challenged ideas of a monolithically archaic South through innovative representations of time.
Brief description: LEIGH ANNE DUCK is an assistant professor of English at the University of Memphis.
Review Quotes:
The Nation's Region is a brilliant study of Southern regionalism, U.S. nationalism, and American literary modernism. It is exhaustively and meticulously well-informed, bristling with cutting-edge reformulations and recastings of established problems and solutions. It is also beautifully written, with prose that is unfailingly lucid, lean, and exact. This book will be a leading contribution to new Southern studies.
--John T. Matthews "Boston University"