“We’re what we are because of the Past”: History, Memory, Nostalgia, and Identity in Walter Sullivan’s <i>The Long, Long Love</i>
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....
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| description | 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 postagrarian, 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. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-6677afc8e0f941e39d0eaf910081a7502023-06-13T12:10:51ZengCBS Open JournalsAmerican Studies in Scandinavia0044-80602014-09-0146210.22439/asca.v46i2.5134“We’re what we are because of the Past”: History, Memory, Nostalgia, and Identity in Walter Sullivan’s <i>The Long, Long Love</i>Tanfer Emin Tune0Hacettepe UniversityWalter 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 postagrarian, 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.https://192.168.7.25:443/index.php/assc/article/view/5134 |
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| title | “We’re what we are because of the Past”: History, Memory, Nostalgia, and Identity in Walter Sullivan’s <i>The Long, Long Love</i> |
| title_full | “We’re what we are because of the Past”: History, Memory, Nostalgia, and Identity in Walter Sullivan’s <i>The Long, Long Love</i> |
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| title_short | “We’re what we are because of the Past”: History, Memory, Nostalgia, and Identity in Walter Sullivan’s <i>The Long, Long Love</i> |
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