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Plantation airs racial paternalism and the transformations of class in southern fiction, 1945-1971

Costello, Brannon 1975- (Author).

Summary: In Plantation Airs, Brannon Costello argues persuasively for new attention to the often neglected issue of class in southern literary studies. Focusing on the relationship between racial paternalism and social class in American novels written after World War II, Costello asserts that well into the twentieth century, attitudes and behaviors associated with an idealized version of agrarian antebellum aristocracy--especially, those of racial paternalism--were believed to be essential for white southerners. The wealthy employed them to validate their identities as "aristocrats," while less.

Record details

ISBN: 9780807135242 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 0807135240 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 9780807144923 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 0807144924 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 9780807132708 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN: 0807132705 (cloth : alk. paper)
Physical Description: electronic resource
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1 online resource (x, 203 p.)
Publisher: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, c2007.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-196) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Acknowledgments; Introduction THE PROBLEM OF FLEM SNOPES'S HAT Southern History, Racial Paternalism, and Class; 1 PATERNALISM, PROGRESS, AND "PET NEGROES" Zora Neale Hurston's Seraph on the Suwanee; 2 PLAYING LADY AND IMITATING ARISTOCRATS Race, Class, and Money in Eudora Welty's Delta Wedding and The Ponder Heart; 3 STOPPING ON A DIME Race, Class, and the "White Economy of Material Waste" in William Faulkner's The Mansion and The Reivers; 4 MECHANICS AND MULATTOES Class, Work, and Race in Ernest Gaines's Of Love and Dustand "Bloodline."
Source of Description Note:	Description based on print version record.