A companion to the literature and culture of the American south / edited by Richard Gray and Owen Robinson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gray, Richard, 1944-

Robinson, Owen.

Series:

Blackwell companions to literature and culture ; 23.

Blackwell companions to literature and culture ; 23

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--Southern States--History and criticism--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

American literature.

Authors, American--Homes and haunts--Southern States--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Authors, American.

Southern States--Intellectual life--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Southern States.

Southern States--In literature--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Southern States--Civilization--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (666 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

From slave narratives to the Civil War, and from country music to Southern sport, this Companion is the definitive guide to the literature and culture of the American South. Includes discussion of the visual arts, music, society, history, and politics in the region Combines treatment of major literary works and historical events with a survey of broader themes, movements and issues Explores the work of Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain, William Faulkner, Zora Neale Huston, Flannery O'Connor and Eudora Welty, as well as those - black and white, male and female -

Contents:

A Companion to the Literature and Culture of the American South; Contents; Acknowledgments; Notes on Contributors; List of Plates; PART I Introduction; 1 Writing Southern Cultures; PART II Themes and Issues; 2 The First Southerners: Jamestown's Colonists as Exemplary Figures; 3 Slave Narratives; 4 Plantation Fiction; 5 The Slavery Debate; 6 Southern Writers and the Civil War; 7 Visualizing the Poor White; 8 Southern Appalachia; 9 The Southern Literary Renaissance; 10 The Native-American South; 11 Southern Music; 12 Country Music; 13 The Civil Rights Debate; 14 Southern Religion(s)

15 African-American Fiction and Poetry16 Southern Drama; 17 Sports in the South; 18 The South Through Other Eyes; 19 The South in Popular Culture; PART III Individuals and Movements; 20 Edgar Allan Poe; 21 Southwestern Humor; 22 Mark Twain; 23 Ellen Glasgow; 24 Fugitives and Agrarians; 25 William Faulkner; 26 Literature of the African-American Great Migration; 27 Zora Neale Hurston; 28 Flannery O'Connor; 29 Eudora Welty; 30 Oral Culture and Southern Fiction; 31 Recent and Contemporary Women Writers in the South; 32 The South in Contemporary African-American Fiction

33 Writing in the South NowPART IV Afterword; 34 Searching for Southern Identity; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786611320829

9781782686040

1782686045

9781281320827

128132082X

9780470703502

0470703504

9781405165143

1405165146

9780470756935

0470756934

9780470756690

0470756691

OCLC:

212126349