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Lewis, Nancy. From “Kaye Gibbons: Her Full-Time Women,” in Southern Writers at Century’s End. Edited by Jeffrey J. Folks and James A. Perkins. The University Press of Kentucky, 1997. Copyright © 1997 by The University Press of Kentucky. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Mason, Julian. From “Kaye Gibbons (1960-),” in Contemporary Fiction Writers of the South. Edited by Joseph M. Flora and Robert Bain. Greenwood Press, 1993. Copyright © 1993 by Joseph M. Flora and Robert Bain. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc., Westport, CT.—Munafo, Giavanna. From “’Colored Bisquits’: Reconstructing Whiteness and the Boundries of ‘Home’ in Kaye Gibbons’s ‘Ellen Foster’,” in Women, America, and Movement: Narratives of Relocation. Edited by Susan L. Roberson. University of Missouri Press, 1998. Copyright © 1998 by The Curators of the University of Missouri. All rights reserved. Reprinted by permission of Missouri Press.—Young, Elizabeth. From Shopping in Space: Essays on America’s Blank Generation Fiction. By Elizabeth Young and Graham Caveney. Serpent’s Tail, 1992. Copyright © 1992 by Graham Caveney and Elizabeth Young. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.
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