Gray / Robinson A Companion to the Literature and Culture of the American South

1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-470-75669-0
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 672 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture

From slave narratives to the Civil War, and from country music toSouthern sport, this Companion is the definitive guide tothe literature and culture of the American South.

* * Includes discussion of the visual arts, music, society,history, and politics in the region

* Combines treatment of major literary works and historicalevents with a survey of broader themes, movements and issues

* Explores the work of Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain, WilliamFaulkner, Zora Neale Huston, Flannery O'Connor and Eudora Welty, aswell as those - black and white, male and female - who are writingnow

* Co-edited by the esteemed scholar Richard Gray, author of theacclaimed volume, A History of American Literature(Blackwell, 2003)

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gray, Richard

Robinson, Owen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments x
Notes on Contributors xii
List of Plates xviii
PART I Introduction 1
1 Writing Southern Cultures 3
Richard Gray
PART II Themes and Issues 27
2 The First Southerners: Jamestown's Colonists as Exemplary Figures 29
Mary C. Fuller
3 Slave Narratives 43
Jerry Phillips
4 Plantation Fiction 58
John M. Grammer
5 The Slavery Debate 76
Susan-Mary Grant
6 Southern Writers and the Civil War 93
Susan-Mary Grant
7 Visualizing the Poor White 110
Stuart Kidd
8 Southern Appalachia 130
Linda Tate
9 The Southern Literary Renaissance 148
Robert H. Brinkmeyer, Jr.
10 The Native-American South 166
Mick Gidley and Ben Gidley
11 Southern Music 185
John White
12 Country Music 203
Barbara Ching
13 The Civil Rights Debate 221
Richard H. King
14 Southern Religion(s) 238
Charles Reagan Wilson
15 African-American Fiction and Poetry 255
R. J. Ellis
16 Southern Drama 280
Mark Zelinsky and Amy Cuomo
17 Sports in the South 297
Diane Roberts
18 The South Through Other Eyes 317
Helen Taylor
19 The South in Popular Culture 335
Allison Graham
PART III Individuals and Movements 353
20 Edgar Allan Poe 355
Henry Claridge
21 Southwestern Humor 370
John M. Grammer
22 Mark Twain 388
Peter Stoneley
23 Ellen Glasgow 403
Julius Rowan Raper
24 Fugitives and Agrarians 420
Andrew Hook
25 William Faulkner 436
Richard Godden
26 Literature of the African-American Great Migration 454
Kate Fullbrook
27 Zora Neale Hurston 472
Will Brantley
28 Flannery O'Connor 486
Susan Castillo
29 Eudora Welty 502
Jan Nordby Gretlund
30 Oral Culture and Southern Fiction 518
Jill Terry
31 Recent and Contemporary Women Writers in the South 536
Sharon Monteith
32 The South in Contemporary African-American Fiction 552
A. Robert Lee
33 Writing in the South Now 571
Matthew Guinn
PART IV Afterword 589
34 Searching for Southern Identity 591
James C. Cobb
Index 608

Über Autor(innen)

Richard Gray is Professor in the Department of Literature atthe University of Essex. His books include The Literature ofMemory: Modern Writers of the American South, Writing the South:Ideas of an American Region (which won the C. Hugh Holman Awardfrom the Society for the Study of Southern Literature), AmericanPoetry of the Twentieth Century, The Life of William Faulkner: ACritical Biography, Southern Aberrations: Writers of the AmericanSouth and the Problems of Regionalism, and A Historyof American Literature. He is also editor of a number ofcollections and anthologies, and a regular reviewer for variousnewspapers and journals, including the Times LiterarySupplement and the Literary Review. He is the firstspecialist in American literature to be elected a Fellow of theBritish Academy.
Owen Robinson is Lecturer in American Literature at theUniversity of Essex. He is the author of several articles on thenovels of William Faulkner, and is editing A Routledge Guide toLight in August. He is currently working on writing centred onNew Orleans, and on reader-writer relations in African Americanliterature.