Understanding Pat Conroy (Understanding Contemporary American

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Understanding Pat Conroy (Understanding Contemporary American Literature)

Pat Conroyâ€™s work as a novelist and a memoirist has indelibly shaped the image of the American South in the cultural imagination. His 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. The study begins with a sketch of Conroyâ€™s biography, a narrative that, while fascinating in its own right, is employed here to illuminate many of the motifs and characters that define his work and to locate him within southern literary tradition. The volume then moves on to explore each of Conroyâ€™s major works, tracing the evolution of the themes within and among each of his novels, including The Great Santini, The Lords of Discipline, The Prince of Tides, Beach Music, and South of Broad, and his memoirs, among them The Water Is Wide and My Losing Season.

Seltzerâ€™s insightful close readings of Conroyâ€™s work are supplemented by interviews and archival material, shedding new light on the often-complex dynamics between text and context in Conroyâ€™s oeuvre. More broadly Understanding Pat Conroy also explores the ways that Conroy delights in troubling the boundaries that circumscribe the literary establishment. Seltzer links Conroyâ€™s work to existing debates about the contemporary American canon, and, like Conroyâ€™s work itself, Understanding Pat Conroy will be of interest to his readers, students of American literature, and new and veteran South watchers.

Country	USA
Author	Catherine Seltzer
Binding	Kindle Edition
EISBN	9781611175172
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	University of South Carolina Press
Manufacturer	University of South Carolina Press
NumberOfPages	145
PublicationDate	2015-04-15
Publisher	University of South Carolina Press
ReleaseDate	2015-04-15
Studio	University of South Carolina Press

Understanding Pat Conroy (Understanding Contemporary American Literature)

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