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The future of southern letters / edited by Jefferson Humphries & John Lowe.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American literature--Southern States--History and criticism--Theory, etc.
- American literature.
- Authors, American--Homes and haunts--Southern States.
- Authors, American.
- Canon (Literature).
- Southern States--Intellectual life--1865-.
- Southern States.
- Southern States--In literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (209 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2023.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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
- Contents:
- Contents; Contributors; Introduction; 1. Southern Writing and the Problem of the Father; 2. Still Southern after All These Years; 3. Writing on the Cusp: Double Alterity and Minority Discourse in Appalachia; 4. The Shape of Appalachian Literature to Come: An Interview with Wil Hickson; 5. Porch-Sitting and Southern Poetry; 6. Of Canons and Cultural Wars: Southern Literature and Literary Scholarship after Midcentury; 7. ... And Ladies of the Club; 8. An Interview with Brenda Marie Osbey
- 9. 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 Century10. Autobiographical Traditions Black and White; 11. Speculations on a Southern Snipe; 12. Robert Olen Butler: A Pulitzer Profile; 13. The Rhetoric of Southern Humor; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 1996.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-772420-5
- 1-280-45141-6
- 1-4237-5882-X
- 0-19-535698-5
- 1-60256-056-0
- OCLC:
- 437173378
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