{"title":"“Visible, Unfamiliar, Remarkable”: Private Bodies and Public Policy in Eudora Welty’s Losing Battles","authors":"Stephanie Rountree","doi":"10.1353/SLJ.2016.0021","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"In the opening line of her tribute to Patricia Yaeger at MLA’s 2015 memorial session, Katherine Henninger recalled the late and great scholar’s legendary proclamation: “‘I want to dynamite the rails’; this sentence launched a fl eet of dissertations.” Henninger’s estimation of Yaeger’s infl uence is no exaggeration; indeed, my own dissertation sails among that armada of scholarship that owes its impetus to the brazen boundary-blasting work Yaeger achieved in Dirt and Desire. Her book became a rallying cry for scholars to consciously and vigorously integrate southern studies across all sorts of ideological boundaries. For me, her emphasis on the interrelation between public politics and private spaces inspired a methodological approach to southern literature that continually guides my scholarship. In her chapter “Politics in the Kitchen: Roosevelt, McCullers, and Surrealist History,” Yaeger demonstrates how:","PeriodicalId":332248,"journal":{"name":"South: a scholarly journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2016-11-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"South: a scholarly journal","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1353/SLJ.2016.0021","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 1
Abstract
In the opening line of her tribute to Patricia Yaeger at MLA’s 2015 memorial session, Katherine Henninger recalled the late and great scholar’s legendary proclamation: “‘I want to dynamite the rails’; this sentence launched a fl eet of dissertations.” Henninger’s estimation of Yaeger’s infl uence is no exaggeration; indeed, my own dissertation sails among that armada of scholarship that owes its impetus to the brazen boundary-blasting work Yaeger achieved in Dirt and Desire. Her book became a rallying cry for scholars to consciously and vigorously integrate southern studies across all sorts of ideological boundaries. For me, her emphasis on the interrelation between public politics and private spaces inspired a methodological approach to southern literature that continually guides my scholarship. In her chapter “Politics in the Kitchen: Roosevelt, McCullers, and Surrealist History,” Yaeger demonstrates how:
凯瑟琳·亨宁格(Katherine Henninger)在2015年MLA纪念会上向帕特里夏·耶格尔(Patricia Yaeger)致敬的开场白中,回忆了这位已故伟大学者的传奇宣言:“‘我想炸毁铁轨’;这句话引发了一连串的论文。亨宁格对耶格尔影响的估计并不夸张;事实上,我自己的论文也在学术研究的舰队中航行,而这些学术研究的动力来自于耶格尔在《污垢与欲望》(Dirt and Desire)中大胆打破边界的工作。她的书成为学者们有意识地、积极地跨越各种意识形态界限整合南方研究的战斗口号。对我来说,她对公共政治和私人空间之间相互关系的强调激发了一种研究南方文学的方法论方法,这种方法一直指导着我的学术研究。在《厨房里的政治:罗斯福、麦卡勒斯和超现实主义历史》一章中,耶格尔论证了: