Southern Writers Bear Witness : Interviews / Jan Nordby Gretlund ; foreword by Daniel Cross Turner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gretlund, Jan Nordby, author.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (263 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2018

Place of Publication:

Columbia : 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:

Cover

Southern Writers Bear Witness

Title

Copyright

Dedication

CONTENTS

FOREWORD

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

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

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

Interview with Clyde Edgerton Jackson, Mississippi, March 26, 1996

Interview with Clyde Edgerton Wilmington, North Carolina, September 29, 2010

Percival Everett Odense, Denmark, March 13-14, 2013

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

Interview with Barry Hannah Oxford, Mississippi, April 12, 1982

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

Fiction Is Like Fire and Flood: Interviews with Mary Hood Oxford, Mississippi, March 26, 1996

Woodstock, Georgia, October 30, 2000

Interview with Mary Hood Commerce, Georgia, October 29, 2014

The Excitement and the Mystery of the Immediate: Interviews with Josephine Humphreys The Confederate Widows' Home, Charleston, South Carolina, May 26, 1993

January 27, 1996

May 9, 2000

May 2, 2001

Interview with Josephine Humphreys Charleston, South Carolina, October 21, 2014

Out of the Garden Forever: Interviews with Madison Jones Auburn, Alabama, June 3, 1978

January 12, 1981

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

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

Difficult Times: An Interview with Walker Percy Covington, Louisiana, January 29, 1985

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

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 5, 2010

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

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

INDEX OF AUTHORS AND WORKS.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781611178777

1611178770

OCLC:

1029074267