Contemporary Southern Literature

Contemporary Southern Literature Criticism

• Introduction
• Representative Works
• Essays
  • Place and Time: The Southern Writer's Inheritance
  • The City and the Quest for Cultural Values
  • Inventing Modern Southern Fiction: A Postmodern View
  • Introduction to The Future of Southern Letters
  • Toward a New Southern Poetry: Southern Poetry in Contemporary American Literary History
  • The Burden of Home: Shirley Ann Grau's Fiction
  • The Southern Imagination of Sonia Sanchez
  • Lee Smith: The Storyteller's Voice
  • Cooking as Mission and Ministry in Southern Culture: The Nurturers of Clyde Edgerton's Walking across Egypt, Fannie Flagg's Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistlestop Cafe, and Anne Tyler's Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
  • Josephine Humphreys's New Southerner
  • Cormac McCarthy: Restless Seekers
  • Going Nowhere Slow: The Post-South World of Bobbie-Ann Mason
  • Rita Mae Brown: Feminist Theorist and Southern Novelist
  • Introduction: Southern Laughter and the Woman Writer
  • Beyond the Hummingbird: Southern Women Writers and the Southern Gargantua
  • The Construction of Confluence: The Female South and Eudora Welty's Art
• Further Reading