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Acknowledgments ix Introduction. Recalcitrant Materialities 1 Part One. Bodily Attributes One. Manual Discourse: A Problem in Mark Twain’s America 31 Two. Listening for Zora: Voice, Body, and the Mediat(iz)ed Modernism of Jonah’s Gourd Vine and Moses, Man of the Mountain 87 Three. Writing Blood: The Art of the Literal in William Faulkner’s Light in August 135 Part Two. Embodied Experiences Four. Richard Wright’s Parables of Pain: Uncle Tom’s Children and the Making and Unmaking of a Southern Black World 159 Five. Difficult Embodiment: Coming of Age in Katherine Anne Porter’s Miranda Stories 216 Six. Reading War on the Body: The Example of Bobbie Ann Mason’s In Country 262 Coda. Overreading (for) the Body: Walker Percy’s Cautionary Tale 305 Notes 321 Works Cited 365 Index 399 Contents This page intentionally left blank ...

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