Ordering the Facade: Photography and Contemporary Southern Women's WritingUNC 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 |
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 |
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