Being Ugly: Southern Women Writers and Social Rebellion by Miller, Monica Carol
Being Ugly: Southern Women Writers and Social Rebellion by Miller, Monica Carol

Being Ugly: Southern Women Writers and Social Rebellion

In the South, one notion of "being ugly" implies inappropriate or coarse behavior that transgresses social norms...
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Author: Monica Carol Miller
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Being Ugly: Southern Women Writers and Social Rebellion by Miller, Monica Carol

Being Ugly: Southern Women Writers and Social Rebellion

€83,57
Being Ugly: Southern Women Writers and Social Rebellion by Miller, Monica Carol

Being Ugly: Southern Women Writers and Social Rebellion

€83,57
Author: Monica Carol Miller
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Description

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.

Author: Monica Carol Miller
Publisher: LSU Press
Published: 05/08/2017
Pages: 176
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.80w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780807165607


Review Citation(s):
Choice 10/01/2017

About the Author
Monica Carol Miller is a Marion L. Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow and assistant director the Writing and Communication Program at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
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