History and Storytelling: Historical Narratives by Women Authors of the Contemporary American South

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  • Susanne Rothaug Universität Würzburg

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5283/copas.56

Abstract

Contemporary historical fictions by women writers of the American South show new ways of dealing with the region’s history. In a project of rewriting mainstream history, they try to provide a means of identification and therefore a “usable past“ for women of the present-day South.  At the same time, they still explore the epistemological questions inherent in all historical representation. Kaye Gibbons and Lee Smith show two distinctly different versions of dealing with these questions.

Author Biography

Susanne Rothaug, Universität Würzburg

CV Nov. 1999 finishing Ph.D. thesis on contemporary women writers of the American South 1995-99 assistant, Department of American Studies, University of Würzburg 1994 completed M.A. in English and Japanese at University of Würzburg 19  exchange student at University of Sheffield 1987 took up M.A. course in English and American literature and linguistics as well as Japanese language and literature at the University of Würzburg  

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Rothaug, Susanne. “History and Storytelling: Historical Narratives by Women Authors of the Contemporary American South”. Current Objectives of Postgraduate American Studies, vol. 1, Dec. 2011, doi:10.5283/copas.56.

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Vol. 1 (2000)

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