Table of Contents:
  • The South of the agrarians
  • Richard Weaver and the outline of Southern literary history
  • Race, literature, and history in the work of Louis D. Rubin, Jr.
  • Southern literature anthologies and the invention of the South
  • African-American writers and Southern literary history
  • Southern women writers and the Quentin theory
  • Southern writing under the influence of William Faulkner
  • Parody and postsouthernness
  • The invention of the South and the culture war.