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Article: Comic Visions, Female Voices: Contemporary Women Novelists and Southern Humor.(Review)
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- The Mississippi Quarterly
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- June 22, 2000
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Comic Visions, Female Voices: Contemporary Women Novelists and Southern Humor, by Barbara Bennett. Southern Literature Studies series. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1998.xiii, 135 pp. $27.50 cloth.
WITHIN HER STUDY BARBARA BENNETT WRITES, "Sometimes, for a woman to know what she does not want is as important as knowing what she wants, and separating herself from false images of the southern woman is the first step toward liberation" (p. 119). This statement illustrates how the value of her literary study goes beyond providing literary analyses of writers whose work has not yet received much critical attention. This book would be enjoyed by ...