Interrupting the silences in twentieth century Southern women's literature: recovering and re-visioning the life and literary work of Caroline Pafford Miller

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dc.contributor.advisorReesman, Jeanne
dc.contributor.authorPeña, Debra D.
dc.contributor.committeeMemberCantú, Norma E.
dc.contributor.committeeMemberVance, David R.
dc.contributor.committeeMemberWoodson, Linda
dc.date.accessioned2024-02-12T19:29:32Z
dc.date.available2024-02-12T19:29:32Z
dc.date.issued2015
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dc.description.abstractIn this study, I examine the reasons Caroline Miller, author of the novel Lamb in His Bosom (winner of both the 1934 Pulitzer Prize and the Prix Femina Vie Heurcusse ) and Lebanon (published in 1944 and now out of print) has all but fallen into obscurity and argue that though Miller's work has been labeled a regional accomplishment and relevant, minimally, to studies of the U.S. South might account, in part, for her erasure from American literature in general, it does not explain her absence from studies focused on local color or regional writing of the Southern United States or of Southern women writers. Although winning a Pulitzer does not necessarily ensure or warrant continued popularity of any writer, that Miller was the first Georgia woman writer to win the Pulitzer significantly highlights the absence of her name in current feminist critical studies of Southern women writers, as well as studies that specifically name Georgia-Pulitzer-prize-winning novelists, and suggests more than mere oversight. I argue that Miller's absence stems from two primary reasons: (1) Miller's writing and life challenged Southern literary and cultural notions of "place" by making public the private matters of her history, as well as Georgia History and (2) Lamb in His Bosom's feminine narrative, as defined by and in opposition to Agrarian notions of "masculine" literature assured the erasure of both Miller and her novel from studies of Southern literature, as well as many other authors and novels yet recovered.
dc.description.departmentEnglish
dc.format.extent191 pages
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdf
dc.identifier.isbn9781321736199
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12588/4872
dc.languageen
dc.subjectAmerican Literature
dc.subjectSouthern Literature
dc.subjectSouthern Renaissance
dc.subjectSouthern Women Writers
dc.subjectSouthern Women's Literature
dc.subjectWomen's Literature
dc.subject.classificationLiterature
dc.subject.classificationWomen's studies
dc.subject.lcshMiller, Caroline, 1903-1992
dc.titleInterrupting the silences in twentieth century Southern women's literature: recovering and re-visioning the life and literary work of Caroline Pafford Miller
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thesis.degree.departmentEnglish
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Texas at San Antonio
thesis.degree.levelDoctoral
thesis.degree.nameDoctor of Philosophy

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