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The new Georgia encyclopedia companion to Georgia literature / Hugh Ruppersburg, volume editor ; John C. Inscoe, general editor.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American literature--Georgia--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- Authors, American--Homes and haunts--Georgia.
- Authors, American.
- Georgia--In literature.
- Georgia.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (489 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Companion to Georgia literature
- Georgia literature
- Place of Publication:
- Athens : University of Georgia Press, 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Georgia has played a formative role in the writing of America. Few states have produced a more impressive array of literary figures, among them Conrad Aiken, Erskine Caldwell, James Dickey, Joel Chandler Harris, Carson McCullers, Flannery O'Connor, Jean Toomer, and Alice Walker. This volume contains biographical and critical discussions of Georgia writers from the nineteenth century to the present as well as other information pertinent to Georgia literature. Organized in alphabetical order by author, the entries discuss each author's life and work, contributions to Georgia history and culture, and relevance to wider currents in regional and national literature. Lists of recommended readings supplement most entries. Especially important Georgia books have their own entries: works of social significance such as Lillian Smith's Strange Fruit, international publishing sensations like Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind, and crowning artistic achievements including Jean Toomer's Cane. The literary culture of the state is also covered, with information on the Georgia Review and other journals; the Georgia Center for the Book, which promotes authors and reading; and the Townsend Prize, given in recognition of the year's best fiction. This is an essential volume for readers who want both to celebrate and learn more about Georgia's literary heritage.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Contents
- Foreword
- Literature: Overview
- Conrad Aiken
- Raymond Andrews
- Tina McElroy Ansa
- Bill Arp
- Coleman Barks
- Vereen Bell
- Roy Blount Jr.
- Adrienne Bond
- David Bottoms
- Elias Boudinot
- Edgar Bowers
- Van K. Brock
- Olive Ann Burns
- Kathryn Stripling Byer
- Erskine Caldwell
- Cane
- Jimmy Carter
- Turner Cassity
- Chattahoochee Review
- Brainard Cheney
- Thomas Holley Chivers
- Pearl Cleage
- Judith Ortiz Cofer
- The Color Purple
- Pat Conroy
- Stephen Corey
- Alfred Corn
- Harry Crews
- Rosemary Daniell
- Janice Daugharty
- Deliverance
- James Dickey
- Driving Miss Daisy
- W. E. B. Du Bois in Georgia
- Pam Durban
- Margaret Edson
- Augusta Jane Evans (Wilson)
- Five Points
- Berry Fleming
- Francis Fontaine
- Georgia Center for the Book
- Georgia Humorists
- Georgia Literature Commission
- Georgia Nigger
- Georgia Poetry Society
- The Georgia Review
- Georgia Writers Association
- Georgia Writers Hall of Fame
- God's Little Acre
- Gone With the Wind
- Henry W. Grady
- Julien Green
- Melissa Fay Greene
- Walter Griffin
- Lewis Grizzard
- Anthony Grooms
- Evelyn Hanna
- Will Harben
- Corra Harris
- Joel Chandler Harris
- The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
- Mary Hood
- Mac Hyman
- I Am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang!
- Arthur Crew Inman
- Ha Jin
- Georgia Douglas Johnson
- Greg Johnson
- Nunnally Johnson
- Richard Malcolm Johnston
- Tayari Jones
- Jubilee
- Terry Kay
- James Kilgo
- John Oliver Killens
- Killers of the Dream
- Martin Luther King Jr.
- Sidney Lanier
- Stanley Lindberg
- Augustus Baldwin Longstreet
- Grace Lumpkin
- Katharine Du Pre Lumpkin
- A Man in Full
- Frank Manley
- Frances Mayes
- Carson McCullers
- Ralph McGill
- James Alan McPherson
- The Member of the Wedding
- Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil.
- Caroline Miller
- Judson Mitcham
- Margaret Mitchell
- Marion Montgomery
- Frances Newman
- Flannery O'Connor
- Flannery O'Connor's Short Fiction
- Eugenia Price
- Wyatt Prunty
- Janisse Ray
- Byron Herbert Reece
- John Rollin Ridge
- Larry Rubin
- Ferrol Sams
- Bettie Sellers
- Celestine Sibley
- Anne Rivers Siddons
- Charlie Smith
- Lillian Smith
- Strange Fruit
- Swamp Water
- William Tappan Thompson
- Francis Orray Ticknor
- Tobacco Road
- Jean Toomer
- Townsend Prize for Fiction
- Lamar Trotti
- Joseph Addison Turner
- Alfred Uhry
- Uncle Remus Tales
- The Violent Bear It Away
- John Donald Wade
- Alice Walker
- Don West
- Bailey White
- Walter White
- Philip Lee Williams
- Calder Willingham
- The Wind Done Gone
- Wise Blood
- Frank Yerby
- Contributors.
- Notes:
- "A project of the New Georgia encyclopedia."
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 1-283-25331-3
- 9786613253316
- 0-8203-4300-5
- OCLC:
- 759160194
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