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Society for the Study of Southern Literature 2022

SSSL 2022

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The African American Sonnet

The African American Sonnet

By Timo Müller
Categories: African American Studies
Series: Margaret Walker Alexander Series in African American Studies

Some of the best known African American poems are sonnets: Claude McKay's "If We Must Die," Countee Cullen's "Yet Do I Marvel," Gwendolyn Brooks's "First fight. Then fiddle. " Yet few readers realize ...

Rediscovering Frank Yerby

Rediscovering Frank Yerby

Edited by Matthew Teutsch
Categories: Literature
Series: Margaret Walker Alexander Series in African American Studies

Contributions by Catherine L. Adams, Stephanie Brown, Gene Andrew Jarrett, John Wharton Lowe, Guirdex Massé, Anderson Rouse, Matthew Teutsch, Donna-lyn Washington, and Veronica T. Watson

Rediscovering ...

The Short Stories of Frank Yerby

The Short Stories of Frank Yerby

Edited by Veronica T. Watson
Categories: Literature

Frank Yerby’s first novel, The Foxes of Harrow, established him as a writer and launched a forty-nine-year career in which he published thirty-three novels. He also became the first African American ...

Beyond the Blockbusters

Beyond the Blockbusters

Edited by Rebekah Fitzsimmons & Casey Alane Wilson
Categories: Literature
Series: Children's Literature Association Series

Contributions by Megan Brown, Jill Coste, Sara K. Day, Rachel Dean-Ruzicka, Rebekah Fitzsimmons, Amber Gray, Roxanne Harde, Tom Jesse, Heidi Jones, Kaylee Jangula Mootz, Leah Phillips, Rachel L. Rickard ...

Nerds, Goths, Geeks, and Freaks

Nerds, Goths, Geeks, and Freaks

Edited by Trevor Boffone & Cristina Herrera
Foreword by Guadalupe García McCall
Categories: Literature
Series: Children's Literature Association Series

Winner of the Children’s Literature Association’s 2022 Edited Book Award

Contributions by Carolina Alonso, Elena Avilés, Trevor Boffone, Christi Cook, Ella Diaz, Amanda Ellis, Cristina Herrera, Guadalupe ...

Reading Testimony, Witnessing Trauma

Reading Testimony, Witnessing Trauma

By Eden Wales Freedman
Categories: Literature

Winner of the 2020 Eudora Welty Prize

Theorists emphasize the necessity of writing about—or witnessing—trauma in order to overcome it. To this critical conversation, Reading Testimony, Witnessing Trauma: ...

Southern Literature, Cold War Culture, and the Making of Modern America

Southern Literature, Cold War Culture, and the Making of Modern America

By Jordan J. Dominy
Categories: Literature

During the Cold War, national discourse strove for unity through patriotism and political moderation to face a common enemy. Some authors and intellectuals supported that narrative by casting America’s ...

Conversations with Ron Rash

Conversations with Ron Rash

Edited by Mae Miller Claxton & Rain Newcomb
Categories: Literature
Series: Literary Conversations Series

Since the publication of Serena in 2008 earned him a nomination for the PEN/Faulkner fiction prize, Ron Rash (b. 1953) has gained attention as one of the South's finest writers. Rash draws upon his family's ...

Faulkner and Print Culture

Faulkner and Print Culture

Edited by Jay Watson, Jaime Harker, and James G. Thomas Jr.
Categories: Literature
Series: Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Series

With contributions by Greg Barnhisel, John N. Duvall, Kristin Fujie, Sarah E. Gardner, Jaime Harker, Kristi Rowan Humphreys, Robert Jackson, Mary A. Knighton, Jennifer Nolan, Carl Rollyson, Tim A. Ryan, ...

Gay Faulkner

Gay Faulkner

By Phillip Gordon
Categories: Southern Studies

The life and works of William Faulkner have generated numerous biographical studies exploring how Faulkner understood southern history, race, his relationship to art, and his place in the canons of American ...