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Being Ugly

Southern Women Writers and Social Rebellion

By: Monica Carol Miller

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Being Ugly

Southern Women Writers and Social Rebellion

By: Monica Carol Miller

In the South, one notion of “being ugly” implies inappropriate or coarse behavior that transgresses social norms of courtesy. While popular stereotypes of the region often highlight southern belles as the epitome of feminine power, women writers from the South frequently stray from this convention and invest their fiction with female protagonists described as ugly or chastised for behaving that way. Through this divergence, “ugly” can be a force for challenging the strictures of normative southern gender roles and marriage economies. In Being Ugly: Southern Women Writers and Social Rebellion, Monica Carol Miller reveals how authors from Margaret Mitchell to Monique Truong employ “ugly” characters to upend the expectations of patriarchy and open up more possibilities for southern female identity. Previous scholarship often conflates ugliness with such categories as the grotesque, plain, or abject, but Miller disassociates these negative descriptors from a group of characters created by southern women writers. Focusing on how such characters appear prone to rebellious and socially inappropriate behavior, Miller argues that ugliness subverts assumptions about gender by identifying those who are unsuitable for the expected roles of marriage and motherhood. As opposed to familiar courtship and marriage plots, Miller locates in fiction by southern women writers an alternative genealogy, the ugly plot. This narrative tradition highlights female characters whose rebellion offers a space for re-imagining alternative lives and households in opposition to the status quo. Reading works by canonical writers like Zora Neale Hurston, Flannery O’Connor, and Eudora Welty, along with recent texts by contemporary authors like Helen Ellis, Lee Smith, and Jesmyn Ward, Being Ugly offers an important new perspective on how southern women writers confront regressive ideologies that insist upon limited roles for women.

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080716562X

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Gale Researcher Guide for: A Different South: Eudora Welty, Carson McCullers

By: Monica Carol Miller

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Gale Researcher Guide for: A Different South: Eudora Welty, Carson McCullers

By: Monica Carol Miller

Gale Researcher Guide for: A Different South: Eudora Welty, Carson McCullers is selected from Gale's academic platform Gale Researcher. These study guides provide peer-reviewed articles that allow students early success in finding scholarly materials and to gain the confidence and vocabulary needed to pursue deeper research.

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1535848898

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Being Ugly

Southern Women Writers and Social Rebellion

By: Monica Carol Miller

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Being Ugly

Southern Women Writers and Social Rebellion

By: Monica Carol Miller

Cover -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Introduction -- 1 What Is Ugliness? The Specifically Southern Meaning of Ugly -- 2 Gone with the Wind A Model of Productive Failure -- 3 The Medusa Stares Back Ugly Women in the Work of Eudora Welty -- 4 The Ugly Plot The Generative Possibilities of Failure -- 5 Choosing to Be Ugly Active Rebellion from Flannery O'Connor to Helen Ellis -- Conclusion -- NOTES -- WORKS CITED -- INDEX

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0807165611

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9780807165614

Internal Medicine A Guide to Clinical Therapeutics

By: Rebecca L. Attridge,Monica L. Miller,Rebecca Moote,Laurajo Ryan

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Internal Medicine A Guide to Clinical Therapeutics

By: Rebecca L. Attridge,Monica L. Miller,Rebecca Moote,Laurajo Ryan

THE LATEST THERAPEUTIC TREATMENT OPTIONS IN INTERNAL MEDICINE--AT YOUR FINGERTIPS This peer-reviewed guide highlights important therapeutic treatment options for the most common diseases managed by clinicians practicing internal medicine. SHORT BULLETED CONTENT for ease of use in a clinical setting ORGANIZED BY DISEASE STATE CLINICAL PEARLS to aid in disease management EMBEDDED REFERENCES to facilitate further research DRUG TABLES that include product availability, disease-specific dosing, common adverse reactions and drug/drug interactions SECTIONS INCLUDE: Cardiology, Pulmonary, Gastroenterology, Nephrology, Nutrition, Hematology and Oncology, Infectious Disease, Rheumatology, Psychiatry, Pain, and Transplant HELPFUL APPENDICES INCLUDE: Antidotes, Immunizations, Intrathecal Injections, Intravenous Immunoglobulin, Lab/Drug Interactions and Drug Abuse, Mechanical Ventilation, QT Prolongation, and Steroid Conversion Chart

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McGraw Hill Professional

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007180479X

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9780071804790

VideoHound's Independent Film Guide

By: Monica Sullivan

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VideoHound's Independent Film Guide

By: Monica Sullivan

The only video guide devoted exclusively to movies made outside the Hollywood studio system. Here are reviews of 1,000 films, many of which have moved out of the art houses and into mainstream theaters. The book brims with attitude and humor, trivia, 50 intriguing sidebars of information, and approximately 100 photos.

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Gale Researcher Guide for: A Different South: Eudora Welty, Carson McCullers

By: Monica Carol Miller

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Being Ugly

Being Ugly

Gale Researcher Guide for: A Different South: Eudora Welty, Carson McCullers

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Being Ugly

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Internal Medicine A Guide to Clinical Therapeutics

Internal Medicine A Guide to Clinical Therapeutics

VideoHound's Independent Film Guide

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Gale Researcher Guide for: A Different South: Eudora Welty, Carson McCullers

Gale Researcher Guide for: A Different South: Eudora Welty, Carson McCullers

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