Ordering the Facade: Photography and Contemporary Southern Women's Writing

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UNC Press Books, 2007 - 232 pages
Proposing a new way to map intersections of photography and American literature, Katherine Henninger demonstrates the importance of pinpointing specific cultural and subcultural history. "Ordering the Facade" traces the visual and literary cultures of sou

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Contents

Introduction Visual Legacies of the South
1
1 A Short and Selected History of Photography in the South
26
White Ladies Cultured Revisionings
85
Photographs as Evidence and Assertion in African American Southern Fiction
113
Excess and Access in Appalachia
136
5 Reimaging Southern Communities or Picturing the PostSouth
156
Epilogue Buscando New Orleans Looking for New Orleans
182
Notes
187
Works Cited
207
Index
225
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Katherine Henninger is assistant professor of American literature at Louisiana State University.

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