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Southern obsession, southern delight: new perspectives on race and place in southern literature.(To Hell and Back: Race and Betrayal in the Southern Novel)(Charles W. Chesnutt and the Fictions of Race)(Racial Politics and Robert Penn Warren's Poetry)(

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From: The Southern Literary Journal
Date: 20050322
Author:Carson, Warren J.

To Hell and Back: Race and Betrayal in the Southern Novel. By Jeff Abernathy. Athens: U of Georgia P, 2003. 222 pp. $49-95 cloth; $18.95 paper.

Charles W. Chesnutt and the Fictions of Race. By Dean McWilliams. Athens: U of Georgia P, 2002. 261 pp. $39.95.

Racial Politics and Robert Penn Warren's Poetry. By Anthony Szczesiul. Gainesville: UP of Florida, 2002. 253 pp. $55.00.

The southern obsession with race and place has been the subject of numerous critical studies, literary works, symposia, and the like. Just how much of an obsession continues into the twenty-first ...

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