First published in paperback 2007. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Writing southern cultures / Richard Gray -- The first southerners : Jamestown's colonists as exemplary figures / Mary C. Fuller -- Slave narratives / Jerry Phillips -- Plantation fiction / John M. Grammer -- The slavery debate / Susan-Mary Grant -- Southern writers and the Civil War / Susan-Mary Grant -- Visualizing the poor white / Stuart Kidd -- Southern Appalachia / Linda Tate -- The southern literary renaissance / Robert H. Brinkmeyer, Jr. -- The Native-American South / Mick Gidley and Ben Gidley -- Southern music / John White -- Country music / Barbara Ching -- The civil rights debate / Richard H. King -- Southern religion(s) / Charles Reagan Wilson -- African-American fiction and poetry / R.J. Ellis -- Southern drama / Mark Zelinsky and Amy Cuomo -- Sports in the South / Diane Roberts -- The South through other eyes / Helen Taylor -- The South in popular culture / Allison Graham -- Edgar Allan Poe / Henry Claridge -- Southwestern humor / John M. Grammer -- Mark Twain / Peter Stoneley -- Ellen Glasgow / Julius Rowan Raper -- Fugitives and Agrarians / Andrew Hook -- William Faulkner / Richard Godden -- Literature of the African-American great migration / Kate Fullbrook -- Zora Neale Hurston / Will Brantley -- Flannery O'Connor / Susan Castillo -- Eudora Welty / Jan Nordby Gretlund -- Oral culture and southern fiction / Jill Terry -- Recent and contemporary women writers in the South / Sharon Monteith -- The South in contemporary African-American fiction / A. Robert Lee -- Writing in the South now / Matthew Guinn -- Searching for southern identity / James C. Cobb.
Series:
Blackwell companions to literature and culture ; 23
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