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A Companion to the Literature and Culture of the American South
Richard Gray (Edited by), R Gray (Author), Owen Robinson (Edited by)
9780631224044, Wiley
Hardback, published 29 April 2004
668 pages
25.4 x 17.8 x 4 cm, 1.297 kg
"The exhaustive range of part 2, "Themes and Issues" merits praise. Rather than focussing on literature or a narrow definition of culture, the editors have solicited some fine essays in subjects ranging from music and religion to sports and popular culture." (American Studies, April 2009) A CHOICE ‘OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC TITLE’ “The latest volume in Blackwell's "Companions to Literature and Culture" series features 33 brief essays that run the gamut of the Southern experience, from the Jamestown settlers to the contemporary era…Like Blackwell guides, the quality of the essays is high, and the authors cover as many points as possible within the space limits given them. Highly recommended. All academic and public libraries.” (Choice) "[T]he many contributors, British and American, to this splendid compendium of fact and opinion demonstrate the rich variety of literature and music that has emanated from the South in the past 150 years [...] The Companion is methodical in its overall structure and is comprehensive, informative and clearly written throughout. Each chapter has extensive lists of references and further reading and the index is full and accurate. This is a work that will remain a vital source for students of the subject and that can be profitably used by readers in general." (Reference Reviews)
From slave narratives to the Civil War, and from country music to Southern sport, this Companion is the definitive guide to the literature and culture of the American South.
Acknowledgments x Notes on Contributors xii List of Plates xviii PART I Introduction 1 1 Writing Southern Cultures 3 PART II Themes and Issues 27 2 The First Southerners: Jamestown’s Colonists as Exemplary Figures 29 3 Slave Narratives 43 4 Plantation Fiction 58 5 The Slavery Debate 76 6 Southern Writers and the Civil War 93 7 Visualizing the Poor White 110 8 Southern Appalachia 130 9 The Southern Literary Renaissance 148 10 The Native-American South 166 11 Southern Music 185 12 Country Music 203 13 The Civil Rights Debate 221 14 Southern Religion(s) 238 15 African-American Fiction and Poetry 255 16 Southern Drama 280 17 Sports in the South 297 18 The South Through Other Eyes 317 19 The South in Popular Culture 335 PART III Individuals and Movements 353 20 Edgar Allan Poe 355 21 Southwestern Humor 370 22 Mark Twain 388 23 Ellen Glasgow 403 24 Fugitives and Agrarians 420 25 William Faulkner 436 26 Literature of the African-American Great Migration 454 27 Zora Neale Hurston 472 28 Flannery O’Connor 486 29 Eudora Welty 502 30 Oral Culture and Southern Fiction 518 31 Recent and Contemporary Women Writers in the South 536 32 The South in Contemporary African-American Fiction 552 33 Writing in the South Now 571 PART IV Afterword 589 34 Searching for Southern Identity 591 Index 608
Richard Gray
Mary C. Fuller
Jerry Phillips
John M. Grammer
Susan-Mary Grant
Susan-Mary Grant
Stuart Kidd
Linda Tate
Robert H. Brinkmeyer, Jr.
Mick Gidley and Ben Gidley
John White
Barbara Ching
Richard H. King
Charles Reagan Wilson
R. J. Ellis
Mark Zelinsky and Amy Cuomo
Diane Roberts
Helen Taylor
Allison Graham
Henry Claridge
John M. Grammer
Peter Stoneley
Julius Rowan Raper
Andrew Hook
Richard Godden
Kate Fullbrook
Will Brantley
Susan Castillo
Jan Nordby Gretlund
Jill Terry
Sharon Monteith
A. Robert Lee
Matthew Guinn
James C. Cobb
Subject Areas: Literature: history & criticism [DS]
