“Nothing could stop it, nothing”: The Burden of Postsouthern History in Barry Hannah’s “Uncle High Lonesome”

This paper considers Barry Hannah’s short story “Uncle High Lonesome” (1996) as a postsouthern reworking of the modernist “southern burden” paradigm. Close readings of Hannah’s work reveal conspicuously “southern” narratives of historical haunting, trauma and guilt, implying that the burden of histo...

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Main Author: Clare Chadd
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: European Association for American Studies 2018-07-01
Series:European Journal of American Studies
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/ejas/13096
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