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- W2186281210 abstract "Talley, Sharon. Southern Women Novelists and Civil War: Trauma and Collective Memory in American Literary Tradition since 1861. Knoxville: U of Tennessee P, 2014.Cloth. $74.00. Sharon Talley opens her ambitious study, Southern Women Novelists and Civil War, with an epigraph from Flannery O'Connor's essay The Regional Writer in which O'Connor nods to Walker Percy's oft-quoted (and marvelously succinct) explanation for existence of a rich body of southern literature: Because we lost War. As Talley observes in her preface, the War--or our Fall as O'Connor identifies Civil War--remains central to an understanding of southern self-fashioning: South is regularly characterized as a culture that is still seeking to reconcile a set of prelapsarian myths with a legacy of defeat. Accordingly, implied tension between apologist impulses and progressive critiques of Old South remains at heart of traditional approaches to southern literature. In her project, Talley accepts centrality of our Fall in constructions of southernness, but she posits that we may view war not simply as signal event in southern history, but as site of ongoing communal reinvention. Employing recent research on collective trauma, Talley argues that Civil War can be viewed as a set of tragedies that were replayed repeatedly within minds of citizens in an effort to understand what had occurred and why(x). This repetition invites revision, and Talley's study is interested in ways evolution of South's collective memory shapes its identity and, more specifically, in ways women novelists both participated in and subverted dominant narratives that have emerged from this process. Such a project could take any number of directions, and rationale that Talley provides for form of her study is both thorough and thoughtful. She is quick to acknowledge work of scholars such as Carol Manning, Anne Goodwyn Jones, and Carolyn Perry and Louise Weaks in carving out critical space for southern women writers, but Talley points out that existing studies tend to be fragmented in their attention to Civil War as a central theme or, alternately, address a variety of forms of women's writing--including memoirs, journals, and essays--as a way of further challenging a canon that has historically excluded women. In limiting her scope to novels, Talley foregrounds fiction as an imaginative space in which women writers could both record and reframe trauma of war, and she works to create a narrative that is comprehensive in its scope, beginning with novelists writing during Civil War (1861-65) and dedicating sections of book to periods of Reconstruction (1865-77) and Redemption (1877-1914) before turning to Modern South (1914-1945) and Contemporary South (1945-the present). Each of these sections is comprised of two to four chapters devoted to a single author (and usually a single novel), and book is a careful balance between canonical authors and those less well-known. …" @default.
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