Plantation Modernism.

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  • Author(s): COHEN, MATT
  • Source:
    Mississippi Quarterly. Spring2007, Vol. 60 Issue 2, p385-411. 27p.
  • Additional Information
    • Subject Terms:
      LITERARY style; WOMEN authors; BOYLE, Virginia Frazer; SLAVERY in literature; REGIONALISM in literature
    • Abstract:
      The article discusses plantation writing by women writers with special reference to fiction writer Virginia Frazer Boyle's works. Plantation writing includes post-civil war fiction and poetry concerning Southern slavery. Plantation fiction written by women is stated to make a strong case for regionalism as a process rather than a category. In Boyle's writing, regionalism is manipulated by a woman attempting to take the public stage in socioeconomic transition.