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Jones, Suzanne Whitmore was born on May 26, 1950 in Surry, Virginia, United States. Daughter of Frank Woolson and Sue (Whitmore) Jones.
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South to A New Place: Region, Literature, Culture (Southern Literary Studies)
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Foreword by Richard Gray Contributors to this exciting collection continue the work of critically and creatively remapping the South through their freewheeling studies of southern literature and culture. In appraising representations of the South within a context that is postmodern, diverse, widely inclusive, and international, the essays present multiple ways of imagining the South and examine both new places and old landscapes in an attempt to tie the mythic southern balloon down to earth. Essayists include the best and brightest in southern literary criticism: Suzanne W. Jones, Sharon Monteith, Richard Gray, Scott Romine, Barbara Ladd, Carolyn Jones, Jon Smith, Paul Lyons, Wes Berry, Eric Anderson, Robert McRuer, Matthew Guinn, Martyn Bone, Maureen Ryan, Amy J. Elias, Michael Kreyling, Christine Gerhardt, Deborah Cohn, Helen Taylor, and Diane Roberts. Together these eminent scholars explore the roles that economic, racial, and ideological tensions have played in the formation of southern identity through varying representations of locality, moving regionalism towards a "new place" in southern studies. Southern Literary Studies; Fred Hobson, Editor
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(Race Mixing: Southern Fiction Since the Sixties) Author: Suzanne W. Jones published on (February, 2006)
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Race Mixing: Southern Fiction since the Sixties
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In the southern United States, there remains a deep need among both black and white writers to examine the topic of race relations, whether they grew up during segregation or belong to the younger generation that graduated from integrated schools. In Race Mixing, Suzanne Jones offers insightful and provocative readings of contemporary novels, the work of a wide range of writers—black and white, established and emerging. Their stories explore the possibilities of cross-racial friendships, examine the repressed history of interracial love, reimagine the Civil Rights era through children's eyes, herald the reemergence of the racially mixed character, investigate acts of racial violence, and interrogate both rural and urban racial dynamics. Employing a dynamic model of the relationship between text and context, Jones shows how more than thirty relevant writers—including Madison Smartt Bell, Larry Brown, Bebe Moore Campbell, Thulani Davis, Ellen Douglas, Ernest Gaines, Josephine Humphreys, Randall Kenan, Reynolds Price, Alice Walker, and Tom Wolfe—illuminate the complexities of the color line and the problems in defining racial identity today. While an earlier generation of black and white southern writers challenged the mythic unity of southern communities in order to lay bare racial divisions, Jones finds in the novels of contemporary writers a challenge to the mythic sameness within racial communities—and a broader definition of community and identity. Closely reading these stories about race in America, Race Mixing ultimately points to new ways of thinking about race relations. "We need these fictions," Jones writes, "to help us imagine our way out of the social structures and mind-sets that mythologize the past, fragment individuals, prejudge people, and divide communities."
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Suzanne Whitmore Jones
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Suzanne Whitmore Jones, American English language educator. Recipient Distinguished Educator award University Richmond, 1989, 92, Outstanding Faculty award Virginia Council Higher Education, 1992, S. Atlantic Association Depts. English Teaching award, 1994; named fellow College William and Mary, 1974-1975, Virginia Center for Humanities, 1987, 92; Gov's fellow University of Virginia, 1978-1979; research and travel grantee U. Richmond, since 1987.
Education
Bachelor, College William and Mary, 1972; Master of Arts, College William and Mary, 1975; Doctor of Philosophy, University of Virginia, 1984.
Career
English/drama teacher, Hampton (Virginia) City Schools, 1972-1974; English/journalism teacher, Williamsburg (Virginia) City Schools, 1976-1978; English professor, U. Richmond, Virginia, since 1984; coordinator women's studies, U. Richmond, Virginia, 1985-1994. Consultant, lecturer Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, since 1983, National Endowment for Humanities, Virginia, 1985-1986. Lecturer Virginia Center for the Humanities, since 1986.
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Race Mixing: Southern Fiction since the Sixties
( In the southern United States, there remains a deep nee...)
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South to A New Place: Region, Literature, Culture (Southern Literary Studies)
(Foreword by Richard Gray Contributors to this exciting ...)
- Writing the Woman Artist: Essays on Poetics Politics and Portra
- (Race Mixing: Southern Fiction Since the Sixties) Author: Suzanne W. Jones published on (February, 2006)
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Race Mixing: Southern Fiction since the Sixties
Membership
Member Modern Language Association (southern literature discussion group executive committee) South Atlantic Modern Language Association (president women's caucus 1987-1988), Society for Study Narrative Literature, Society for Study Southern Literature (executive council 1993-1996), National Women's Studies Association, Southeastern Women's Studies Association, Virginia Women's Studies Association, Edith Wharton Society, Phi Beta Kappa.
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Married J. Frank Papovich, July 1986.
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Recipient Distinguished Educator award University Richmond, 1989, 92, Outstanding Faculty award Virginia Council Higher Education, 1992, S. Atlantic Association Departments English Teaching award, 1994. Named fellow College William and Mary, 1974-1975, Virginia Center for Humanities, 1987, 92. Gov's fellow University Virginia, 1978-1979. Research and travel grantee University Richmond, since 1987, National Endowment of the Humanities, 1998 (summer).Recipient Distinguished Educator award University Richmond, 1989, 92, Outstanding Faculty award Virginia Council Higher Education, 1992, S. Atlantic Association Departments English Teaching award, 1994. Named fellow College William and Mary, 1974-1975, Virginia Center for Humanities, 1987, 92. Gov's fellow University Virginia, 1978-1979.
Research and travel grantee University Richmond, since 1987, National Endowment of the Humanities, 1998 (summer).