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New Yorker James Baldwin once declared that a black man can look at a map of the United States, contemplate the area south of the Mason-Dixon Line, and thus scare himself to death. In The Scary Mason-Dixon Line, Trudier Harris explores why black writers have consistently both loved and hated the South.

A panorama of past and contemporary southern society are captured in Bridging Southern Cultures by some of the South's leading historians, anthropologists, literary critics, musicologists, and folklorists. This exciting collection reaches aspects of southern heritage that previous approaches have long obscured.

In the most extensive work to date on major poets from the mountain South, John Lang takes as his point of departure an oft-quoted remark by Jim Wayne Miller: "Appalachian literature is - and has always been - as decidedly worldly, secular, and profane in its outlook as the [region's] traditional religion appears to be spiritual and otherworldly."

In this groundbreaking study, Gary Ciuba examines how four of the American South's most probing writers of twentieth-century fiction - Katherine Anne Porter, Flannery O'Connor, Cormac McCarthy, and Walker Percy - expose the roots of violence in southern culture.

In this unique work, twelve prominent Kate Chopin scholars reflect on their parts in the Kate Chopin revival and its impact on their careers. A generation ago, against powerful odds, many of them staked their reputations on the belief - now fully validated - that Chopin is one of America's essential writers.

Offering a compelling intervention in studies of antebellum writing, Katharine Burnett's Cavaliers and Economists examines how popular modes of literary production in the South emerged in tandem with the region's economic modernization.

Presents a collection of critical essays by prominent southern literary scholars that examine the significance of motherhood in southern fiction. Bringing southern motherhood into focus, the essays speak to both the established and the unconventional modes of motherhood that are typical in southern writing.

This volume is a guide to the richly diverse and enduring tradition of Southern US women's literature. It is a history that extends from the pioneer woman to the career woman, embracing black and white, poor and privileged, and urban and Appalachian perspectives and experiences.

Taking Albert Murray's South to a Very Old Place as a starting point, contributors to this exciting collection continue the work of critically and creatively remapping the South through their freewheeling studies of southern literature and culture.

In this biography of one of southern literature's unjustly neglected masters Crowder blends biographical fact and incisive analysis to correct a mistaken view that Humphrey was among those writers mired in the pious cult of southern delusionary remembrance.

This edition of Southern Writers assumes its distinguished predecessor's place as the essential reference on literary artists of the American South. Broadly expanded and thoroughly revised, it boasts 604 entries - nearly double the earlier edition's - written by 264 scholars.

In this stimulating study, Mary Weaks-Baxter views the Southern Renaissance, 1900-1960, from a fresh perspective. Many writers in the South began consciously to create new myths for the region at the start of the twentieth century, and these myths, Weaks-Baxter argues, reframed southern history and culture.

Volume four of the Selected Letters of Robert Penn Warren covers a crucial time of personal and professional rejuvenation in Warren's life. During the fifteen-year period spanned by this correspondence, he completed Brother to Dragons, Segregation: The Inner Conflict in the South and Who Speaks for the Negro?

Explores the complex racial mythology created by the upper classes of the antebellum South in the wake of divisive events to justify secession and, eventually, the Civil War. This mythology cast southerners as descendants of the Normans of eleventh-century England and thus also of the Cavaliers of the seventeenth century.

WILLIAM FAULKNER, WILLIAM JAMES, AND THE AMERICAN PRAGMATIC TRADITION pairs the writings of America's most intellectually challenging modern novelist, William Faulkner, and the ideas of America's most revolutionary modern philosopher, William James to demonstrate that Faulkner's writing is deeply connected to the emergence of pragmatism as an intellectual doctrine and as a cultural force in the early twentieth century. With its creative coupling of James's philosophy and Faulkner's art, Evans's lively, engaging book makes a bold contribution to Faulkner studies and studies of southern literature.

In this comprehensive, groundbreaking study, Tim Ryan explores how American novelists since World War I have imagined the institution of slavery and the experience of those involved in it. Ryan suggests that discourses about American slavery are - and have always been - defined by connections rather than disjunctions.

The Fourth Ghost examines how white Southern writers from the 1930s confronted a crucial question haunting their identities as southerners and coloring their imaginative visions: how did the authoritarianism and the racial politics of European fascism, particularly that of Nazi Germany, relate to southern culture? Writers examined in this wide-ranging study include the Nashville Agrarians, W. J. Cash, William Alexander Percy, Lillian Smith, Thomas Wolfe, William Faulkner, Katherine Anne Porter, Carson McCullers, Robert Penn Warren, and Lillian Hellman.

From antebellum times, Louisiana's unique multipartite society included a legal and social space for intermediary racial groups such as Acadians, Creoles, and Creoles of Color. In Becoming Cajun, Becoming American, Maria Hebert-Leiter explores how American writers have portrayed Acadian culture over the past 150 years.

From 1840 to 1848, journalist C. M. Haile published a series of mock letters-to-the-editor in the New Orleans Picayune under the pseudonym "Pardon Jones". In this volume, Ed Piacentino collects all of Haile's epistles, highlighting this trove of Old Southwest humour and the prolific writer's foremost literary achievement.

Despite critical acclaim for Robert Penn Warren's later poetry, much about this large body of work remains unexplored, especially the psychological sources of these poems' remarkable energy. Joseph Millichap takes advantage of research on developmental psychology, gerontology, and end-of-life studies to offer new readings of Warren's later poems.

Collects nineteenth-century stories, sketches, and book excerpts by a gallery of authors to create a comprehensive collection of writings about the riverboat gambler. Thomas Ruys Smith puts the twenty-eight selections in perspective with an introduction that explores the history and myth surrounding this fascinating American cultural icon.

Examines how converging political and cultural movements helped to create dualistic images of southern poor white female characters in Depression-era literature. Lancaster focuses on how the evolving eugenics movement reinforced the dichotomy of altruistic maternal figures and destructive sexual deviants.

For the US South, the myth of chivalric masculinity dominates the cultural and historical landscape. Visions of white southern men as archetypes of honour and gentility run throughout regional narratives. In Queer Chivalry, Tison Pugh exposes the inherent contradictions in these depictions of cavalier manhood.

From the heartbroken protagonist she depicted in her first story, to the reflective widow she described in her last novel, Eudora Welty wrote realistically about the shadows and radiance of love. In an exploration of this theme, Sally Wolff combines readings of Welty's fiction with contextual information drawn from her friendship with Welty.

Employing recent theories of memory from multiple areas of study, Possessing the Past illuminates the tangled relationships among trauma, fantasy, and the public sphere, and their impact on the "South" in imagination and in reality.

In this bold study of cinematic depictions of violence in the south, Deborah Barker explores the ongoing legacy of the "southern rape complex" in American film. Barker demonstrates how the tropes and imagery of the southern rape complex continue to assert themselves across a multitude of genres, time periods, and stylistic modes.

Celebrates and interprets the complementary expressions of photography and literature in the South. Focusing on the 1930s, and including significant works both before and after this preeminent decade, Joseph Millichap uncovers fascinating convergences between mediums, particularly in the interplay of documentary realism and subjective modernism.

As the first collection dedicated to the relationship between television and the US South, Small-Screen Souths addresses the growing interest in how mass culture represents the region and influences popular perceptions of it.

In this first monograph to consider Choctaw writer LeAnne Howe's entire body of work, Kirstin Squint expands contemporary scholarship on Howe by examining her nuanced portrayal of Choctaw history and culture as modes of expression.

The first book to provide a comprehensive narrative account of Mark Twain's intimate and long-lasting creative engagement with the Mississippi. This expansive study traces two separate but richly intertwined stories of the river as America moved from the aftermath of the Civil War toward modernity.