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Poor Whites in Recent Southern Fiction
Author(s) -
Robertson Sarah
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
literature compass
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.158
H-Index - 4
ISSN - 1741-4113
DOI - 10.1111/j.1741-4113.2012.00920.x
Subject(s) - white (mutation) , psychology , history , literature , art , biochemistry , gene , chemistry
Poor white characters have appeared throughout southern fiction in a number of guises. This article examines the ways in which contemporary depictions of poor whites challenge earlier one‐dimensional accounts of this economically disenfranchised group. Central to the discussion is a consideration of the changing nature of southern studies to a reconsideration of poor whites.