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UNDERSTANDING TIM GAUTREAUX
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| By: |
Margaret Donovan Bauer, Matthew J. Bruccoli |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£35.95 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1570038597 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781570038594 |
| Publisher: |
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
1 January, 2010 |
| Series: |
Understanding Contemporary American Literature |
| Pages: |
272 |
| Description: |
Offers an introduction to the works of a Cajun writer who finds optimism in his blue-collar tales. This book presents a study of the Louisiana storyteller, who injects a seldom heard Cajun voice into Southern literature and offers a optimistic vision among other contemporary writers of the hardscrabble American South. |
| Synopsis: |
This book offers an introduction to the works of a Cajun writer who finds optimism in his blue-collar tales. 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 hardscrabble American South. Bauer surveys Tim 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 identify 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 other contemporary writers of the blue-collar South. She views Gautreaux's poor white protagonists as action-oriented characters who, while trapped by circumstances, still strive to affect positive change in their lives. |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
University of South Carolina Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |