SOURCE: Yaeger, Patricia. “Beyond the Hummingbird: Southern Women Writers and the Southern Gargantua.” In Haunted Bodies: Gender and Southern Texts, edited by Anne Goodwyn Jones and Susan V. Donaldson, pp. 287-318. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1997.
In the following essay, Yaeger discusses Southern women writers' frequent use of physically grotesque characters in their works and emphasizes the latter's political role in “mapping an entire region's social and psychic neuroses.”
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