A Companion to the Literature and Culture of the American South [Hardcover]

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• Includes discussion of the visual arts, music, society, history, and politics in the region
  
• Combines treatment of major literary works and historical events with a survey of broader themes, movements and issues
  
• Explores the work of Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain, William Faulkner, Zora Neale Huston, Flannery O'Connor and Eudora Welty, as well as those - black and white, male and female - who are writing now
  
• Co-edited by the esteemed scholar Richard Gray, author of the acclaimed volume, A History of American Literature (Blackwell, 2003)

Acknowledgments x

Notes on Contributors xii

List of Plates xviii

PART I Introduction 1

1 Writing Southern Cultures 3
Richard Gray

PART II Themes and Issues 27

2 The First Southerners: Jamestown’s Colonists as Exemplary Figures 29
Mary C. Fuller

3 Slave Narratives 43
Jerry Phillips

4 Plantation Fiction 58
John M. Grammer

5 The Slavery Debate 76
Susan-Mary Grant

6 Southern Writers and the Civil War 93
Susan-Mary Grant

7 Visualizing the Poor White 110
Stuart Kidd

8 Southern Appalachia 130
Linda Tate