Southern writers at century's end /
"As the essays here point out, Southern writing since 1975 reflects the confusion and violence that have characterized late-twentieth-century public culture. These essays consider the work of twenty-one Southern writers whose most significant fiction has appeared in the last quarter of this cen...
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| Language: | English |
| Published: | Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, ©1997. |
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Table of Contents:
- Randall Garrett Kenan : myth and reality in Tims Creek / Doris Betts
- Mary Hood : the dark side of the moon / David Aiken
- James Wilcox : the normality of madness / Hugh Ruppersburg
- John Grisham : obsessive imagery / Randolph Paul Runyon
- James Lee Burke : " ... always the first inning" / William Bedford Clark and Charlene Kerne Clark
- T.R. Pearson : debatable heroes / Mary Bozeman Hodges
- Tim McLaurin : Keeper of the moon / Sue Laslie Kimball
- Richard Marius : "the brooding mystery" / Carroll Viera
- Robert Drake : the railroad as metaphor / James A. Perkins
- Kaye Gibbons : her full-time women / Nancy Lewis
- Barry Hannah : Geronimo Rex in retrospect / David Madden
- Anne Tyler : wrestling with the "lowlier angel" / James Grove
- Bobbie Ann Mason : searching for home / Albert E. Wilhelm
- Cormac McCarthy : restless seekers / John G. Cawelti
- Alice Walker : The color purple as allegory / Winifred Morgan
- Fred Chappell : midquestions / Randolph Paul Runyon
- Josephine Humphreys : "hope's last stand" / Elizabeth A. Ford
- Richard Ford : postmodern cowboys / Jeffrey J. Folks
- Andre Dubus : "never truly members" / Lucy Ferriss
- Clyde Edgerton : death and dying / James A. Grimshaw, Jr.
- Lee Smith : Ivy Rowe as woman and artist / Elizabeth Pell Broadwell.