"We're what we are because of the Past": History, Memory, Nostalgia, and Identity in Walter Sullivan's The Long, Long Love


Tunc T. E.

AMERICAN STUDIES IN SCANDINAVIA, cilt.46, sa.2, ss.17-36, 2014 (AHCI) identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 46 Sayı: 2
  • Basım Tarihi: 2014
  • Dergi Adı: AMERICAN STUDIES IN SCANDINAVIA
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI), Scopus
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.17-36
  • Hacettepe Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

Walter Sullivan (1924-2006), a Nashville, Tennessee native who spent most of his academic and professional life at Vanderbilt University, is generally considered by critics as a literary descendent of the first two generations of Fugitive-Agrarians and the Southern Renaissance to which they belong. This essay seeks to position Sullivan's second, largely forgotten novel, The Long, Long Love as part of the post-agrarian, post-Renaissance, postmodern, and post-southern American intellectual reevaluation of the South that questions tradition through an assertion of "pro-New South, pro urban, and pro-capitalist" values and thoroughly reconsiders Civil War "truths," myths, history, and memory.