Southern writers bear witness : interviews / Jan Nordby Gretlund ; foreword by Daniel Cross Turner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gretlund, Jan Nordby, author.

Contributor:

Class of 1932 Fund.

Turner, Daniel Cross, writer of foreword.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Southern States--Intellectual life.

Southern States.

Intellectual life.

Southern States--In literature.

American literature--Southern States--History and criticism.

American literature.

Authors, American--Homes and haunts--Southern States.

Authors, American.

Authors, American--Homes and haunts.

Authors, American--20th century--Interviews.

Literature.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Interviews.

Physical Description:

xvi, 244 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Columbia, South Carolina : University of South Carolina Press, [2018]

Summary:

"Jan Nordby Gretlund has been studying the literature of the American South for some fifty years, and his outsider's perspective as a European scholar has made him an intellectually acute witness of both the literature and its creators. Whether it is their language and reflexive storytelling or the craft and techniques by which writers transform life and experience into art that fascinates Gretlund, elements of their fiction led to his interviews with the fourteen storytellers featured in Southern Writers Bear Witness. Gretlund believes a good interview will always reveal something about a writer's life and character, details that can inform a reading of that writer's fiction. The interviewer's task, according to Gretlund, is to supply the reader with some of the sources and experiences that inspired and shaped the fiction. Through his conversations Gretlund also occasionally elicits the subjects' reflections on other writers and their work to discover affiliations, lines of influence, and divergences, and he also emphasizes the enduring power of their work"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Autobiography and Fiction: An Interview with Pat Conroy Beaufort Inn, November 4, 2015 p. 1

Lines out across the Gap: An Interview with Pam Durban Beaufort, South Carolina, January 23, 2004 p. 10

Interview with Clyde Edgerton Jackson, Mississippi, March 26, 1996 p. 22

Interview with Clyde Edgerton Wilmington, North Carolina, September 29, 2010 p. 45

Percival Everett Odense, Denmark, March 13-14, 2013 p. 69

In My Own Style: An Interview with Kaye Gibbons Raleigh, North Carolina, June 18, 1996 p. 77

Interview with Barry Hannah Oxford, Mississippi, April 12, 1982 p. 93

Interview with Barry Hannah His home on Van Buren Street, south of Oxford, Mississippi, June 3, 1985 p. 102

Fiction Is Like Fire and Flood: Interviews with Mary Hood Oxford, Mississippi, March 26, 1996; Woodstock, Georgia, October 30, 2000 p. 107

Interview with Mary Hood Commerce, Georgia, October 29, 2014 p. 119

The Excitement and the Mystery of the Immediate: Interviews with Josephine Humphreys The Confederate Widows' Home, Charleston, South Carolina, May 26, 1993; January 2j, 1996; May 9, 2000; May 2, 2001 p. 125

Interview with Josephine Humphreys Charleston, South Carolina, October 21, 2014 p. 149

Out of the Garden Forever: Interviews with Madison Jones Auburn, Alabama, June 3, 1978; January 12, 1981 p. 153

A Good Man with a Good Voice-"You can lead a mule to water": Interview with Martin Luther King Sr. The Ebenezer Baptist Church, Atlanta, Georgia, June 1, 1978 p. 170

Laying the Ghost of Marcus Aurelius: An Interview with Walker Percy Covington, Louisiana, January 2, 1981 p. 177

Difficult Times: An Interview with Walker Percy Covington, Louisiana, January 29, 1989 p. 189

Interview with Ron Rash: With Thomas Bjerre's Participation Clemson, South Carolina, October 28, 2014 p. 193

Interviews with Dori Sanders York County, South Carolina, March 11, 1996; Aeroe Island, Denmark, August 23, 1997; Beaufort, South Carolina, January 29,1999; Hilton Head, South Carolina, November 9, 2010 p. 201

Interviews with Eudora Welty 1119 Pinehurst Street, Jackson, Mississippi, February 9, June 8,1978 p. 211

Seeing Real Things: An Interview with Eudora Welty 1119 Pinehurst Street, Jackson, Mississippi, May 20, 1993 p. 230.

Notes:

Includes index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1932 Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Gretlund, Jan Nordby. Southern writers bear witness.

ISBN:

9781611178760

1611178762

OCLC:

1011518305