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- catalog abstract ""This book addresses the ways in which 12 contemporary Southern women writers use their heroines' stories to challenge commonly held and frequently damaging notions of adolescence, femininity, and regional identity. The works of Anne Tyler, Bobbie Ann Mason, Josephine Humphreys, Dorothy Allison, Kaye Gibbons, Tina Ansa, Janisse Ray, Jill McCorkle and young adult writers Katherine Paterson, Mildred Taylor and Cynthia Voigt are examined in detail."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b13306919.
- catalog coverage "Southern States In literature.".
- catalog created "c2004.".
- catalog date "2004".
- catalog date "c2004.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2004.".
- catalog description ""This book addresses the ways in which 12 contemporary Southern women writers use their heroines' stories to challenge commonly held and frequently damaging notions of adolescence, femininity, and regional identity. The works of Anne Tyler, Bobbie Ann Mason, Josephine Humphreys, Dorothy Allison, Kaye Gibbons, Tina Ansa, Janisse Ray, Jill McCorkle and young adult writers Katherine Paterson, Mildred Taylor and Cynthia Voigt are examined in detail."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-193) and index.".
- catalog description "Narratives of development/developing narratives -- "Becoming, maybe so" : breakdowns, setbacks, and triumphs in Lee Smith's novels -- "Three meal a day aftermaths" : Anne Tyler's determined adolescents -- "One layer deeper" : on the road and in country with Sam Hughes -- "People have no respect for girls" : Lucille Odom's ride through adolescence -- "The hope of the remade life" : Allison's and Gibbons' rewritten girlhoods -- "Claim what is yours" : Tina McElroy Ansa's spiritual journey -- "Odd how things are and then they aren't" : Janisse Ray's identity of loss -- "A whole world of possibilities" : Jill McCorkle's troubled and tenacious girls -- "Keep on asking questions" : tough girls in young adult fiction.".
- catalog extent "viii, 199 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "New Southern girl.".
- catalog identifier "0786418931 (softcover : alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "New Southern girl.".
- catalog issued "2004".
- catalog issued "c2004.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co.,".
- catalog relation "New Southern girl.".
- catalog spatial "Southern States In literature.".
- catalog spatial "Southern States".
- catalog subject "813/.6 22".
- catalog subject "Adolescence in literature.".
- catalog subject "American fiction 20th century History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "American fiction Southern States History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "American fiction Women authors History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Girls in literature.".
- catalog subject "PS374.G55 T69 2004".
- catalog subject "Teenage girls Books and reading.".
- catalog subject "Teenage girls in literature.".
- catalog subject "Women Southern States Intellectual life.".
- catalog subject "Women and literature Southern States History 20th century.".
- catalog subject "Young adult fiction, American History and criticism.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Narratives of development/developing narratives -- "Becoming, maybe so" : breakdowns, setbacks, and triumphs in Lee Smith's novels -- "Three meal a day aftermaths" : Anne Tyler's determined adolescents -- "One layer deeper" : on the road and in country with Sam Hughes -- "People have no respect for girls" : Lucille Odom's ride through adolescence -- "The hope of the remade life" : Allison's and Gibbons' rewritten girlhoods -- "Claim what is yours" : Tina McElroy Ansa's spiritual journey -- "Odd how things are and then they aren't" : Janisse Ray's identity of loss -- "A whole world of possibilities" : Jill McCorkle's troubled and tenacious girls -- "Keep on asking questions" : tough girls in young adult fiction.".
- catalog title "The new Southern girl : female adolescence in the works of 12 women authors / Caren J. Town.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".