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Автор: Margaret Donovan Bauer
Год: 2010
Издание:
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Страниц: 272
ISBN: 1570038597
In Understanding Tim Gautreaux, Margaret Donovan Bauer presents the first book-length study of the Louisiana storyteller, who injects a seldom heard Cajun voice into southern literature and offers a rare optimistic vision among other contemporary writers of the blue-collar American South.Bauer surveys Gautreaux?s three novels?The Next Step in the Dance, The Clearing, and The Missing?and two collections of short fiction?Same Place, Same Things and Welding with Children? to indentify his major themes, character types, and structures. She views his chief contribution to southern letters to be an authentic insider?s view of Cajun culture, one resulting in a skillful, realistic, and sympathetic vision of historical and contemporary Acadiana in flux. Bauer addresses how Gautreaux?s hopeful vision distinguishes him from his fellow Catholic writer Flannery O?Connor and from other contemporary writers of the blue-collar South such as Larry Brown and Dorothy Allison. She also views Gautreaux?s...
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