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A companion to the literature and culture of the American south [electronic resource] / edited by Richard Gray and Owen Robinson.

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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. Includes discussion of the visual arts, music, society, history, and politics in the region Combines treatment of major litera...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Wiley)
Corporate Author: Blackwell Reference Online (Online service)
Other Authors: Gray, Richard, 1944-, Robinson, Owen
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2004.
Series:Blackwell companions to literature and culture ; 23.
Subjects:
American literature > Southern States > History and criticism > Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Authors, American > Homes and haunts > Southern States > Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Southern States > Intellectual life > Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Southern States > In literature > Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Southern States > Civilization > Handbooks, manuals, etc.
American literature.
Authors, American > Homes and haunts.
Civilization.
Intellectual life.
Literature.
Southern States.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Handbooks and manuals.
Table of 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.

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