Mary Bayard Clarke's Plain-Folk Humor: Writing Women into the Literature and Politics of Reconstruction.
A literary criticism is presented which focuses on the writings of North Carolina author Mary Bayard Clarke, focusing on her use of vernacular humor to discuss class and race relations in the Southern U.S. during Reconstruction. Particular focus is given to her nonfiction descriptions of Abby House,...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Southern History Vol. 76; no. 2; pp. 241 - 275 |
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| Formato: | Literary Criticism |
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Southern Historical Association
May2010
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