The Cambridge companion to the literature of the American South / edited by Sharon Monteith.
Monteith, Sharon.
2013
PS261 .C336 2013 (Mapit)
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Title The Cambridge companion to the literature of the American South / edited by Sharon Monteith.
ISBN 9781107610859 paperback
1107610850 paperback
9781107036789 hardcover
110703678X hardcover
Published Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, [2013]
Language English
Description xiii, 242 pages ; 23 cm.
Call Number PS261 .C336 2013
Dewey Decimal Classification 810.9/975
Summary "This Companion maps the dynamic literary landscape of the American South. From pre- and post-Civil War literature to modernist and civil rights fictions, and writing by immigrants in the 'global' South of the late-twentieth and twenty-first centuries, these newly commissioned essays from leading scholars explore the region's established and emergent literary traditions. Touching on poetry and song, drama and screenwriting, key figures such as William Faulkner and Eurdora Welty, and iconic texts such as Gone with the Wind, chapters investigate how issues of class, poverty, sexuality, and regional identity have textured Southern writing across generations. The volume's rich contextual approach highlights patterns and connections between writers while offering insight into the development of Southern literary criticism, making this Companion a valuable guide for students and teachers of American literature, American studies, and the history of storytelling in America"-- Provided by publisher.
"Featuring essays written by an international team of experts, this Companion maps the dynamic literary landscape of the American South"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author Monteith, Sharon.
Series Cambridge companions to literature.
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Introduction: mapping the figurative South / Sharon Monteith
1. Region, genre, and the nineteenth-century South / Kathryn B. McKee
2. Slave narratives and neo-slave narratives / Judie Newman
3. Literature and the Civil War / Will Kaufman
4. Literature and Reconstruction / Scott Romine
5. Southern verse in poetry and song / Ernest Suarez
6. Southern modernists and modernity / David A. Davis
7. Poverty and progress / Sarah Robertson
8. The southern Renaissance and the Faulknerian South / John T. Matthews
9. Southern women writers and their influence / Pearl Amelia McHaney
10. Hollywood dreaming: southern writers and the movies / Sarah Gleeson-White
11. Civil rights fiction / Sharon Monteith
12. Southern drama / Gary Richards
13. Queering the region / Michael P. Bibler
14. Immigrant writers: transnational stories of a 'worlded' South / Nahem Yousaf.

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