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New Directions in Southern Women's Literary Historiography

New Directions in Southern Women's Literary Historiography New Directions in Southern Women’s Literary Historiography by Barbara Ladd The History of Southern Women’s Literature. Edited by Carolyn Perry and Mary Louise Weaks. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 2002. xvii + 689 pages. $45.55. Carolyn Perry and Mary Louise Weaks follow their 1995 anthology, Southern Women’s Writing: Colonial to Contemporary, with a literary history. Much more than a valuable compendium of information on southern women writ- ers from Eliza Lucas Pinckney (writing in the eighteenth century) to Kaye Gibbons, The History of Southern Women’s Literature offers its readers new ways to think about southern literary history, challenging conventional periodiza- tion, movements, and themes that have come to be generally accepted as defining the field. The “local color” movement of the late nineteenth century, for example, achieves a level of significance in the hands of these essayists that it does not have in traditional histories centered on the work of white male writers. And Perry and Weaks take Carol S. Manning up on the challenge she makes to conventional periodization in The Female Tradition in Southern Lit- erature (1993) by establishing the beginning of the Southern Renaissance in 1900, a move that recovers a number of women writers who http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Southern Literary Journal University of North Carolina Press

New Directions in Southern Women's Literary Historiography

Ladd, Barbara
The Southern Literary Journal , Volume 36 (1) – Dec 30, 2003
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Copyright © 2003 the Southern Literary Journal and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Department of English.
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New Directions in Southern Women’s Literary Historiography by Barbara Ladd The History of Southern Women’s Literature. Edited by Carolyn Perry and Mary Louise Weaks. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 2002. xvii + 689 pages. $45.55. Carolyn Perry and Mary Louise Weaks follow their 1995 anthology, Southern Women’s Writing: Colonial to Contemporary, with a literary history. Much more than a valuable compendium of information on southern women writ- ers from Eliza Lucas Pinckney (writing in the eighteenth century) to Kaye Gibbons, The History of Southern Women’s Literature offers its readers new ways to think about southern literary history, challenging conventional periodiza- tion, movements, and themes that have come to be generally accepted as defining the field. The “local color” movement of the late nineteenth century, for example, achieves a level of significance in the hands of these essayists that it does not have in traditional histories centered on the work of white male writers. And Perry and Weaks take Carol S. Manning up on the challenge she makes to conventional periodization in The Female Tradition in Southern Lit- erature (1993) by establishing the beginning of the Southern Renaissance in 1900, a move that recovers a number of women writers who

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