Going Nowhere Slow: The Post-South World of Bobbie Ann Mason

While Bobbie Ann Mason references her characters' southern local and speech, and even their largely dysfunctional families, in her fictional world southern history and all it represents seems irrelevant to her characters' lives. Her characters display a lack of self-consciousness and her s...

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American writers
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Faulkner, William (1897-1962)
Gender roles
Lifestyles
Literary characters
Literary criticism
Love
Mason, Bobbie Ann
Men
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Popular culture
Portrayals
Rapists
Regions
Rock music
Stereotypes
Video games
War
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