Girlhood and adolescence in the twenty-first-century Southern novel /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Stave, Shirley A., 1952- (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2026]
Subjects:	American fiction > 21st century > History and criticism. American fiction > Southern States > History > 21st century. Girls in literature. Adolescence in literature. Teenage girls in literature. Women and literature > Southern States > History > 21st century. Young adult fiction, American > History and criticism. American fiction > Women authors > History and criticism. American literature > Southern States > History and criticism. Southern States > In literature. Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:

Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1. "I need you to understand how ordinary it all was": Minrose Gwin's "The Queen of Palmyra"
Chapter 2. "To persist in love": Sue Monk Kidd's "The secret life of bees"
Chapter 3. "Looking Asian in the South": Monique Truong's "Bitter in the mouth"
Chapter 4. "She will know that I am a mother": Jesmyn Ward's "Salvage the bones"
Chapter 5. "This life is enough": Rebecca Wells's "The crowning glory of Calla Lily Ponder"
Chapter 6. "Built in his image": Keija Parssinen's "The unravelling of Mercy Louis"
Conclusion
Notes
Works cited
Index.