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The Kingfish in Fiction: Huey P. Long and the Modern American Novel (Southern Literary Studies)
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by Keith Ronald Perry
Sales Rank: 1318964
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Discount: 19 %
$42.95
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Features
Cover Type: Hard Cover with 224 pages
Published by: Louisiana State University Press May 2004
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0807129429
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0807129425
Book Dimensions:
8.9 x 5.5 x 1 inches
Weighs: 1 pounds
Book Description
The controversial, almost mythic Louisiana politician Huey P. Long inspired not just one but six American novels, published between 1934 and 1946. And he continues to resonate in American cultural memory, appearing in a 1995 work of historical fiction. The Kingfish in Fiction offers the first study of all six "Hueys-who-arent-Hueys" as they strut and bluster their way across the literary page, each character telling his own particular story, each towing a different authorial agenda.
Keith Perry carefully dissects the intertwining of documented history and artistic invention in Sinclair Lewiss It Cant Happen Here, Hamilton Bassos Cinnamon Seed and Sun in Capricorn, John Dos Passoss Number One, Adria Locke Langleys A Lion is in the Streets, and Robert Penn Warrens All the Kings Men. Perry explains that Lewis cast his version of the Kingfish as a totalitarian menace, a sort of homegrown Hitler, in what Lewis later admitted was an unapologetic attempt to sabotage Longs designs on the White House. Basso, one of Longs most vocal detractors, created two Long characters, each a rabble-rousing affront to what remained of the Old South order. To warn readers of the dangers hidden in the politician-constituent contract, Dos Passos transformed Long into a shameless manipulator of the gullible American masses. Langleys rendition suffers complete condemnation by its creator for personal as well as public transgressions. Warrens spellbinding Willie Stark, almost as much philosopher as politician, ironically bears the least resemblance to Long though for almost six decades Stark has been Longs best-known fictional embodiment.
Exploring how and why these five authors-among them, a Nobel laureate, one of Americas most celebrated political novelists, and a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner-turned one politician into six fictional characters leads Perry to conclude that Huey P. Longs lasting impression may well be a composite of both historical and imaginative interpretation.
About The Author
Keith Perry is an assistant professor of English at Dalton State College, where he teaches composition, literature, and film. He lives with his wife in the mountains of northwest Georgia.
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