The Scourges of the South Essays on the Sickly South in History Literature and Popular Culture 1st Edition by Thomas Ærvold Bjerre,Beata Zawadka ISBN 1443863602 978-1443863605

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ISBN 10: 1443863602 

ISBN 13: 978-1443863605

Author: Thomas Ærvold Bjerre, Beata Zawadka

In this book, eleven scholars “take their stand” on the controversial issue of disease as it occurs in the context of the American South. Playing on the popular vision of the South as an ill region on several levels, the European and American contributors interpret various aspects of the regional “sickly” culture as not so much southern “problems”, but, rather, southern opportunities, or else, springboards to yet another of the South’s cultural revitalizations, “health”. As Thomas Ærvold Bjerre and Beata Zawadka note in their introduction, the so-called “Healthy South” has never been an easy topic for scholars dealing with the region. One reason for this is that researchers have been taught to approach so formulated a topic no further than to the point when it turns out it is a contradiction in terms, and, indeed, there is much in southern history and the present situation that justifies such an approach. This volume, however, comprises a collective effort of southernist historians, literature experts, and culture critics to transcend the “contradictory” concept of the “Healthy South,” and does so by reinventing the notion of the southern disease and, consequently, the role of the South as a “scourge” in American culture in terms of this culture’s bountiful gift.

Table of contents:

Part I: Bodily Diseases
Chapter One – From “Gospel of Wealth” to “Gospel of Health”: The Rockefellers in the South – Renata Nowaczewska
Chapter Two – Flannery O’Connor’s “The Enduring Chill” as a Medical Tale – Marcel Arbeit
Chapter Three – Years of Discretion: Clyde Edgerton on Old Age – Jan Nordby Gretlund

Part II: Psychological Disorders
Chapter Four – Southern Evil, Southern Violence: Gothic Residues in the Works of William Gay, Barry Hannah, and Cormac McCarthy – Thomas Ærvold Bjerre
Chapter Five – Joan Williams and William Faulkner United in Fiction: The Idiot-Connection – Gérald Préher
Chapter Six – Susan P. Grigsby and the Psychological Dimension of Disease and Death in Antebellum and Civil War Kentucky – Susanna Delfino

Part III: Metaphorical Afflictions
Chapter Seven – Illness as Metaphor in the American South: Lillian Smith’s Diagnosis of a Schizophrenic Culture and a Metastasized Social Body – Constante Gonzales Groba
Chapter Eight – “Don’t Turn the Light On!”: Tennessee Williams, Illness and Popular Culture – Richard Hayes
Chapter Nine – The LGBTQ Message in True Blood and Charlaine Harris’s Sookie Stackhouse Novels – Victoria Amador

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