Includes bibliographical references (pages 111-116) and index.
Contents:
Lee Smith in context : an introduction -- Early signs : The last day the dogbushes bloomed, Something in the wind, and Fancy strut -- The drowning of Crystal Spangler in Black Mountain breakdown -- Narrative mourning : textual suspension of past/present in Oral history -- The culminating self in Family linen -- The protean Ivy in Fair and tender ladies -- "It was like I was right there" : primary experience and the role of memory in The devil's dream -- And the word was God : narrative negotiation of the spirit/flesh split in Saving Grace -- Always the storyteller's story : The last girls -- "We are all just passing through" : contingency in On Agate Hill.
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