Future of Southern Letters

Name: Future of Southern Letters
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ISBN: 9780195097825

ISBN-10: 0195097823

ISBN-13: 9780195097825

Edition: 1998

Authors: Jefferson Humphries, John Lowe

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The New South--replete with shopping malls, hub airports, educated African Americans, and immigrants from Vietnam, Cambodia, and Haiti--is still haunted by the Gothic ghosts of its past. Does the collision between past and present account for the continued preeminence of Southern writers in America's literary culture? Bobbie Ann Mason, Ernest Gaines, Rita Mae Brown, Robert Olen Butler, Cormac McCarthy, Dorothy Allison, and Allan Gurganus are just a few of the writers who draw on a new kind of Southern background while reaching out to a broad American readership. Yet many of these writers have been accused of catering to the stereotypes they think a national audience requires. It would seem…

Book details

List price: $47.95
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 8/8/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English



Contributors


Introduction




Southern Writing and the Problem of the Father




Still Southern after All These Years




Writing on the Cusp: Double Alterity and Minority Discourse in Appalachia




The Shape of Appalachian Literature to Come: An Interview with Wil Hickson




Porch-Sitting and Southern Poetry




Of Canons and Cultural Wars: Southern Literature and Literary Scholarship after Midcentury




... And Ladies of the Club




An Interview with Brenda Marie Osbey




The Discourse of Southernness: Or How We Can Know There Will Be Such a Thing as the South and Southern Literary Culture in the Twenty-First Century




Autobiographical Traditions Black and White




Speculations on a Southern Snipe




Robert Olen Butler: A Pulitzer Profile




The Rhetoric of Southern Humor



Index