The American Southern Identity in Literature (Identities and Issues in Literature)
Introduction
The literature of the American South has never been one of arbitrary and convenient geographic classification. Residents of what now constitutes the states south from Virginia and Maryland to Florida and west to Louisiana—despite diversity in peoples and terrain—have long identified themselves as a distinct civic and cultural group. The literature of this region possesses unique qualities and a full consciousness of its own uniqueness. Not surprisingly, whatever else may be the subject, a governing concern of Southern literature is with identity, the identity...
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