Understanding Pat Conroy

Pat Conroy's writing has rendered the physical landscape of the South Carolina lowcountry familiar to legions of readers, and it has staked out a more complex geography as well, one defined by domestic trauma, racial anxiety, religious uncertainty, and cultural ambivalence. In Understanding Pat Conroy, Catherine Seltzer engages in a sustained consideration of Conroy and his work.

About the author

Catherine Seltzer, an associate professor of English and women's studies at Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, is the author of Elizabeth Spencer's Complicated Cartographies: Reimagining Home, the South, and Southern Literary Production.

Summary

Pat Conroy’s writing has rendered the physical landscape of the South Carolina lowcountry familiar to legions of readers, and it has staked out a more complex geography as well, one defined by domestic trauma, racial anxiety, religious uncertainty, and cultural ambivalence. In Understanding Pat Conroy, Catherine Seltzer engages in a sustained consideration of Conroy and his work.

Product details

• Authors: Catherine Seltzer
• Publisher: Univ of south carolina press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2015
• EAN: 9781611175165
• ISBN: 978-1-61117-516-5
• No. of pages: 160
• Series: Understanding Contemporary Ame; Understanding Contemporary American Literature; Understanding Contemporary Ame; Understanding Contemporary American Literature
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies