Title from containers. Documentary. Part one originally produced in 1996.
Contents:
1963-present: Sons of slaves and slaveowners, Ernest Gaines and William Styron ; Tell about the new South, Walker Percy ; The black arts movement, Alice Walker ; The Southern aviary, Lee Smith, Larry Brown & many more (70 min.). Let freedom ring : 1915-1940: Fugitive poets, blues poets ; Harlem renaissance, Jean Toomer ; Mississippi mythmaker, William Faulkner (80 min.) -- pt. 2. Prophets & poets : 1941-1962: Mississippi son, Richard Wright ; social justice writers, Lillian Smith ; Writing from within, Eudora Welty ; Southern men of letters, Warren and Ellison ; Georgia prophet, Flannery O'Connor (71 min.) -- pt. 3. Let freedom ring : 1963-present: Sons of slaves and slaveowners, Ernest Gaines and William Styron ; Tell about the new South, Walker Percy ; The black arts movement, Alice Walker ; The Southern aviary, Lee Smith, Larry Brown & many more (70 min.).
Summary:
Tells the story of modern Southern literature from 1915 to present. Features literary careers of William Faulkner, Thomas Wolfe, Zora Neale Hurston, Jean Toomer, Robert Penn Warren, Richard Wright, Flannery O'Connor, Eudora Welty, Erskine Caldwell, Ralph Ellison, Walker Percy and many others.
OCLC:
(OCoLC)45176016
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.