Romanticizing the Rough South: Contemporary Cultural Nakedness and the Rise of Grit Lit

[...]people have judged southernness based on one's relationship to southern history. [...]this is not ironic at all, but perfectly fitting: the transition to a more affluent but also more homogenized South is precisely the reason Grit Lit has become so popular.16 While the region increasingly...

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Published in:Southern cultures 2016-09, Vol.22 (3), p.77-94
Main Author: Vernon, Zackary
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
20th century
Allison, Dorothy
American literature
Anthologies
Authenticity
Bloom, Harold (1930-2019)
Capitalism
Childhood
Crews, Harry (1935-2012)
Cultural identity
ESSAY
Homogenization
Immigrants
Jewish literature
Literary form
Literary forms
Narrative history
Novelists
Novels
Poetry
Popularity
Portrayals
Regional identity
Social aspects
Studies
Transnationalism
Trout
Working class white people
Working class whites
Writers
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Summary:[...]people have judged southernness based on one's relationship to southern history. [...]this is not ironic at all, but perfectly fitting: the transition to a more affluent but also more homogenized South is precisely the reason Grit Lit has become so popular.16 While the region increasingly has the same "condos and high-rises, megamalls and office parks" as the rest of the country and the rest of the world, it is also becoming more heterogeneous in that it is comprised of, according to Bone, "a dizzying network of global or 'transnational' flows - not only of capital, but also of immigrants and their cultures."
ISSN:1068-8218
1534-1488
1534-1488
DOI:10.1353/scu.2016.0035