Susan V Donaldson
Biographic Data
| ID | 1068360 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Susan V Donaldson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Susan V |
| FAMILY NAME | Donaldson |
| SIGNATURE | DONALDSON S V |
| AFFILIATIONS | College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Flipping the Script
Women Writers of the Beat Era
Jack Kerouac was among the first to hail beat generation writers for demonstrating a new and iconoclastic brand of masculinity in Cold War America. Following his lead, historians of Kerouac's beats have generally tended to define the beats as a male coterie in rebellion against post–World War II middle-class conventions in general and female domesticity in particular. Dominating magazine articles, interviews, anthologies, and histories were Kerou…
Telling Forgotten Stories of Slavery in the Postmodern South
Telling Forgotten Stories of Slavery in the Postmodern South Susan V. Donaldson (bio) Talk not about kind and Christian masters. They are not masters of the system. The system is master of them. —J. W. C. Pennington Forty years ago, Ralph Ellison served notice that one of the legacies of Jim Crow's demise would be the remaking of American history—and stories about that remaking as well. "[W]e have reached a great crisis in American history," he d…
Visibility, Haitian Hauntings, and Southern Borders
The Secret Treachery of Words
Book Review| December 01 2003 The Secret Treachery of Words: Feminism and Modernism in America By Elizabeth Francis. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press. 2002. xxx, 197 pp. Cloth, $52.95; paper, $18.95. Susan V. Donaldson Susan V. Donaldson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2003) 75 (4): 873–875. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-75-4-873 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Mail…
Master Plots
Master Plots: Race and the Founding an American Literature, 1787-- 1845. By Jared Gardner. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998. Pp. xvii, 238. Illustrations. $45.00.) Nat Turner Before the Bar Judgment. Fictional Treatments the Southampton Slave Insurrection. By Mary Kemp Davis. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1999. Pp. xiv, 298. $30.00.) Both Jared Gardner in Master Plots and Mary Kemp Davis in Nat Turner Before the …
Haunted Bodies
In Haunted Bodies, Anne Goodwyn Jones and Susan V. Donaldson have brought together some of our most highly regarded southern historians and literary critics to consider race, gender, and texts through three centuries and from a wealth of vantage points. Works as diverse as eighteenth-century court petitions and lyrics of 1970s rock music demonstrate how definitions of southern masculinity and femininity have been subject to bewildering shifts and…
Haunted Bodies
Haunted Bodies
"Gender and History in Eudora Welty's "Delta Wedding
Eudora Welty's 1946 novel Delta Wedding is famously, ostensibly a story in which nothing momentous, nothing of large historical portent, happens.' Contemporary reviewers complained of the absence of plot, and Welty herself told an interviewer in 1972 that she had made a careful investigation to find the year in which nothing very terrible had happened in the Delta by way of floods or fires or wars which would have taken the men away. Finally, she…
Louisa S. McCord
Louisa Susanna Cheves McCord (1810-1879) was one of the most remarkable figures in the intellectual history of antebellum America. A conservative intellectual, she broke the confines of Southern gender roles. Over the past decade historians have begun to pay attention to McCord and find her indespensible to understanding American culture. Among Southerners before the Civil War, she is ranked with Thomas Jefferson, George Mason, James Madison, Sar…
Intimate Violence
Nobody's Home
In Nobody's Home, Arnold Weinstein defies the current trends of cultural studies and postmodern criticism to create a sweeping account of American fiction. From Hawthorne's Wakefield to Don deLillo's novels, the book pursues the idea of freedom of speech in the work of American writers. Though many contemporary critics emphasize the ways in which we are bound by the limitations of culture, history and language, Weinstein sees the issue of freedom…
Faulkner's Subject
Journal Article Faulkner's Subject: A Cosmos No One Owns. By Philip M. Weinstein. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992. xiv, 181 pp. $42.95, ISBN 0-521-39047-8.) Get access Susan V. Donaldson Susan V. Donaldson College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 80, Issue 3, December 1993, Page 1142, https://doi.org/10.2307/2080536 …
Faulkner's Short Fiction
Recovering Otherness in The Golden Apples
ROM the very beginning of the I949 short-story sequence The Golden Apples, Eudora Welty takes care to draw our attention to the art of storytelling in the Mississippi Delta town of Morgana-and by implication in the South as well.' The opening story, Shower of Gold, invokes the venerable Southern tradition of oral storytelling through Katie Rainey's garrulous first-person narration and through the implicit role of silent, acquiescent listener impo…
William Faulkner
Form and Society in Modern Literature
Recovering Otherness in The Golden Apples
ROM the very beginning of the I949 short-story sequence The Golden Apples, Eudora Welty takes care to draw our attention to the art of storytelling in the Mississippi Delta town of Morgana-and by implication in the South as well.' The opening story, Shower of Gold, invokes the venerable Southern tradition of oral storytelling through Katie Rainey's garrulous first-person narration and through the implicit role of silent, acquiescent listener impo…
Form and Society in Modern Literature
William Faulkner
Recovering Otherness in The Golden Apples
ROM the very beginning of the I949 short-story sequence The Golden Apples, Eudora Welty takes care to draw our attention to the art of storytelling in the Mississippi Delta town of Morgana-and by implication in the South as well.' The opening story, Shower of Gold, invokes the venerable Southern tradition of oral storytelling through Katie Rainey's garrulous first-person narration and through the implicit role of silent, acquiescent listener impo…
Faulkner's Short Fiction
Faulkner's Subject
Journal Article Faulkner's Subject: A Cosmos No One Owns. By Philip M. Weinstein. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992. xiv, 181 pp. $42.95, ISBN 0-521-39047-8.) Get access Susan V. Donaldson Susan V. Donaldson College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 80, Issue 3, December 1993, Page 1142, https://doi.org/10.2307/2080536 …
Nobody's Home
In Nobody's Home, Arnold Weinstein defies the current trends of cultural studies and postmodern criticism to create a sweeping account of American fiction. From Hawthorne's Wakefield to Don deLillo's novels, the book pursues the idea of freedom of speech in the work of American writers. Though many contemporary critics emphasize the ways in which we are bound by the limitations of culture, history and language, Weinstein sees the issue of freedom…
Intimate Violence
"Gender and History in Eudora Welty's "Delta Wedding
Eudora Welty's 1946 novel Delta Wedding is famously, ostensibly a story in which nothing momentous, nothing of large historical portent, happens.' Contemporary reviewers complained of the absence of plot, and Welty herself told an interviewer in 1972 that she had made a careful investigation to find the year in which nothing very terrible had happened in the Delta by way of floods or fires or wars which would have taken the men away. Finally, she…
Louisa S. McCord
Louisa Susanna Cheves McCord (1810-1879) was one of the most remarkable figures in the intellectual history of antebellum America. A conservative intellectual, she broke the confines of Southern gender roles. Over the past decade historians have begun to pay attention to McCord and find her indespensible to understanding American culture. Among Southerners before the Civil War, she is ranked with Thomas Jefferson, George Mason, James Madison, Sar…
Haunted Bodies
Haunted Bodies
Haunted Bodies
In Haunted Bodies, Anne Goodwyn Jones and Susan V. Donaldson have brought together some of our most highly regarded southern historians and literary critics to consider race, gender, and texts through three centuries and from a wealth of vantage points. Works as diverse as eighteenth-century court petitions and lyrics of 1970s rock music demonstrate how definitions of southern masculinity and femininity have been subject to bewildering shifts and…
Master Plots
Master Plots: Race and the Founding an American Literature, 1787-- 1845. By Jared Gardner. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998. Pp. xvii, 238. Illustrations. $45.00.) Nat Turner Before the Bar Judgment. Fictional Treatments the Southampton Slave Insurrection. By Mary Kemp Davis. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1999. Pp. xiv, 298. $30.00.) Both Jared Gardner in Master Plots and Mary Kemp Davis in Nat Turner Before the …
The Secret Treachery of Words
Book Review| December 01 2003 The Secret Treachery of Words: Feminism and Modernism in America By Elizabeth Francis. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press. 2002. xxx, 197 pp. Cloth, $52.95; paper, $18.95. Susan V. Donaldson Susan V. Donaldson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2003) 75 (4): 873–875. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-75-4-873 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Mail…
Visibility, Haitian Hauntings, and Southern Borders
Telling Forgotten Stories of Slavery in the Postmodern South
Telling Forgotten Stories of Slavery in the Postmodern South Susan V. Donaldson (bio) Talk not about kind and Christian masters. They are not masters of the system. The system is master of them. —J. W. C. Pennington Forty years ago, Ralph Ellison served notice that one of the legacies of Jim Crow's demise would be the remaking of American history—and stories about that remaking as well. "[W]e have reached a great crisis in American history," he d…
Flipping the Script
Women Writers of the Beat Era
Jack Kerouac was among the first to hail beat generation writers for demonstrating a new and iconoclastic brand of masculinity in Cold War America. Following his lead, historians of Kerouac's beats have generally tended to define the beats as a male coterie in rebellion against post–World War II middle-class conventions in general and female domesticity in particular. Dominating magazine articles, interviews, anthologies, and histories were Kerou…
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