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Making patriarchy work for you: Jill Conner Browne's Southern, retrofeminist conduct manuals

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Jill Conner Browne published a funny book, introducing to a national audience the Sweet Potato Queens, a group of women from Jackson, Mississippian 1999. Browne's book is billed as a conduct manual that dispenses everything one needs to know about life and love, and the book became a surprise hit.

Author: Haddox, Thomas F.
Publisher: University of Southern Mississippi
Publication Name: Southern Quarterly
Subject: Regional focus/area studies
ISSN: 0038-4496
Year: 2004
Sweet Potato Queens (Book), Browne, Jill Conner

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Reconsidering the awakening: The Literary Sisterhood of Kate Chopin and George Egerton

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Kate Chopin's book, 'The A wakening' , which was reviewed in the Los Angeles Sunday times in June 1889, was found " unhealthily introspective and morbid" . Chopin's work is compared to that of Egerton, which are found to have much resemblances.

Author: Rich, Charlotte
Publisher: University of Southern Mississippi
Publication Name: Southern Quarterly
Subject: Regional focus/area studies
ISSN: 0038-4496
Year: 2003
The Awakening (Novel)

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Failing fictions: the conflicting and shifting social emphases of Kate Chopin's "local color" stories

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A close examination of Kate Chopin's fiction, specifically her "local color" short stories, is made. The ways, in which the interwoven Southern discourses of race and class have provoked and influenced Chopin's fiction, are discussed.

Author: Holtman, Janet
Publisher: University of Southern Mississippi
Publication Name: Southern Quarterly
Subject: Regional focus/area studies
ISSN: 0038-4496
Year: 2004
Evaluation, Fiction, Short stories

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Subjects list: United States, Authors, Writers, Criticism and interpretation, Works, Chopin, Kate
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