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Willa Cather's southern connections : new essays on Cather and the South
- Conferences
- Willa Cather International Seminar (7th : 1997 : Frederick County, Va.)
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- Creator
- edited by Ann Romines
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia, 2000
- Physical Details
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- ix, 240 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780813919577, 0813919576, 9780813919607, 0813919606
- OCLC
- ocm43672412
- "This book began in 1997 with the seventh in the ongoing series of International Willa Cather Seminars, held for the first time in Cather's birthplace, Frederick County, Virginia ... a selection of the best of those papers has become this book"--Acknowledgements.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [221]-230) and index.
- Introduction / Ann Romines -- Willa Cather and the Question of Sympathy: An Unofficial Story / Judith Fetterley -- "Dock Burs in Yo' Pants": Reading Cather through Sapphira and the Slave Girl / Joseph R. Urgo -- Political Silence and Hist'ry in Sapphira and the Slave Girl / Tomas Pollard -- No Place like Home: Reading Sapphira and the Slave Girl against the Great Depression / Shelley Newman -- Whites Playing in the Dark: Southern Conversation in Willa Cather's Sapphira and the Slave Girl / Roseanne V. Camacho -- "A Kind of Family Feeling about Nancy": Race and the Hidden Threat of Incest in Sapphira and the Slave Girl / Mako Yoshikawa -- "The Dangerous Journey": Toni Morrison's Reading of Sapphira and the Slave Girl / Marilyn Mobley McKenzie -- Race, Labor, and Domesticity in Cather's Sapphira and the Slave Girl / Gayle Wald -- "The Pull of Race and Blood and Kindred": Willa Cather's Southern Inheritance / Lisa Marcus -- "A Race without Consonants": My Mortal Enemy as Reconstruction Narrative / Robert K. Miller -- Henry Colbert, Gentleman: Bound by the Code / Mary R. Ryder -- White Dirt: The Surreal Racial Landscapes of Willa Cather's South / Patricia Yaeger -- The Interlocking Works of Willa Cather and Ellen Glasgow / Merrill Maguire Skaggs -- "Aeneas at Washington" and The Professor's House: Cather and the Southern Agrarians / Elsa Nettels -- O'Connor's Vision and Cather's Fiction / John J. Murphy -- Playing in the Mother Country: Cather, Morrison, and the Return to Virginia / Janis P. Stout -- Dressing for the Part: [What's] The Matter with Clothes / Cynthia Griffin Wolff