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When the United States entered World War I, parts of the country developed industries, urban cultures and democratic political systems, but the south was left behind and remained a poor…

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When the United States entered World War I, parts of the country developed industries, urban cultures and democratic political systems, but the south was left behind and remained a poor agricultural area. Despite the new Southern appeasement, the culture of the South in the early twentieth century was relatively arid technically.

However, the book of the South dominated the literary market by the 1920s and 1930s. World War I brought southerners in touch with modernity before the South fully modernized.

This lack created an inherent tension between the existing social and agricultural structure of the region and the processes of modernization, leading to distant modernism, a form of writing that combines the elements of modernity with the depiction of non-modern social structures. Critics struggled to formulate interpretations of modern Southern literature, sometimes referred to as the Southern Renaissance.

David A. Davis said that Southern modernity was not the introduction of self-writing, but rather a response to the disruptions that had arisen in the region.

In World War I and Southern Modernity, Davis examines dozens of literary works of the book, including William Faulkner, Eileen Glasgow, and Claude McKay, depicting the South during the war. Topics explored in the book include North-South communication, southern warriors who served in the fighting, and the growing southern economy.

Davis also provides a new lens for this argument, take a closer look at African-Americans in the military and change gender roles.



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