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Tennessee Williams And The Reinvention Of The Southern Plantation, Elizabeth Faye Coggins
Tennessee Williams And The Reinvention Of The Southern Plantation, Elizabeth Faye Coggins
Theses and Dissertations
The first chapter consists of an overview of the southern plantation as it survives in cultural imagination, especially in William Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom! and Margaret Mitchell’s Gone With the Wind. The second chapter discusses A Streetcar Named Desire and how Williams reimagines the plantation in an urban setting through the New Orleans Marigny neighborhood. The third chapter examinesWilliams’s reinvention of the rural plantation in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. The conclusion explores how Williams’s work is used as a blueprint in representing the plantation in postsouthern literature and culture.