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Dissertation Information for Julie Anne Brookhart

NAME:
- Julie Anne Brookhart

DEGREE:
- Ph.D.

DISCIPLINE:
- Library and Information Science

SCHOOL:
- University of Chicago (USA) (1989)

ADVISORS:
- Betsy G. Hearne

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
- Zena Sutherland
- Edward Rosenheim

MPACT Status: Fully Complete

Title: The image of the South in realistic fiction for children and young adults, 1945-1980

Abstract: This study is advanced on the hypothesis that contemporary realistic fiction for children and young adults presents a narrow, skewed image which reflects neither the variety not the quality of life in the South between 1945 and 1980. Using content analysis, one hundred forty-four recommended works of realistic fiction set in the South have been evaluated in terms of these areas which reflect the major ideas and institutions emphasized in Southern life: the economy; race relations; education; religion; cultural development; and society and social diversions, including class structure, home and family life, the role of women, speech, food and recreation.

The findings of this study reveal an unquestionable literary distortion of life in the contemporary South. Possible rationalizations offered for this image include the importance of memory to the creators of these fictional works; these authors may have consciously tried to preserve the distinctiveness of the region through literature; the image projected may be an attempt to perpetuate the American myth of the superiority of rural life over urban life; these writers and/or their editors possibly are trying to appeal to a conservative Southern audience; and finally, the image of the South in juvenile literature may stem from established patterns in adult fiction about the South.


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