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- Title
Mongrel Virginia: Ellen Glasgow's Barren Ground and the Curse of Tenancy.
- Authors
Lessig, Matthew
- Abstract
A literary criticism exploring the realist depiction of tenant farming in the U.S. South within the novel "Barren Ground" by Ellen Glasgow. It is argued that the female protagonist's bourgeois identity rests on the agricultural labor carried out by African American farmers employed by the protagonist. The ways in which these depictions of sharecropping informed early 20th century notions of race and class are also examined.
- Subjects
BARREN Ground (Book : Glasgow); GLASGOW, Ellen Anderson Gholson, 1873-1945; FARM tenancy in literature; LITERARY realism; SHARECROPPING; AFRICAN American agricultural laborers
- Publication
Mississippi Quarterly, 2011, Vol 64, Issue 1/2, p235
- ISSN
0026-637X
- Publication type
Literary Criticism