Barry Hannah
164 pages, 5 1/2 x 8 1/2
Paperback
Release Date:15 Jul 2005
ISBN:9781578068142
A thematic tour of the complete works from this exceptional southern writer
Ruth D. Weston was associate professor of English at Oral Roberts University, where she taught women’s studies and American literature. She is author of Gothic Traditions and Narrative Techniques in the Fiction of Eudora Welty.
Acknowledgements xi
Abbreviations xiii
Introduction: The Reticent Beauty of Barry Hannah’s Fiction 1
One: Romance and Rage in the American Man–Child 10
Two: Battles for Identity: Debunking the Unitary Self and Story 41
Three: Storytellers and Other Interesting Monsters: From Oral History to Postmodern Narrative 73
Four: Hannah’s Comic Vision: Riffs on Language, Literature, and the “Play” of Life 104
Bibliography 133
Index 141
