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Society for the Study of Southern Literature 2022

SSSL 2022

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Conversations with Dorothy Allison

Conversations with Dorothy Allison

Edited by Mae Miller Claxton
Categories: Literature
Series: Literary Conversations Series

Since the publication of her groundbreaking novel, Bastard Out of Carolina, Dorothy Allison (b. 1949) has been known—along with Larry Brown and Lee Smith—as a purveyor of the working-class, contemporary ...

New Essays on Eudora Welty, Class, and Race

New Essays on Eudora Welty, Class, and Race

Edited by Harriet Pollack
Categories: Literature
Series: Critical Perspectives on Eudora Welty

Contributions by Jacob Agner, Susan V. Donaldson, Sarah Gilbreath Ford, Stephen M. Fuller, Jean C. Griffith, Ebony Lumumba, Rebecca Mark, Donnie McMahand, Kevin Murphy, Harriet Pollack, Christin Marie ...

Conversations with Robert Morgan

Conversations with Robert Morgan

Edited by Randall Wilhelm & Jesse Graves
Categories: Literature
Series: Literary Conversations Series

Robert Morgan (b. 1944) is one of the most distinguished writers in southern and Appalachian literature, celebrated for his novels, poetry, short fiction, and historical and biographical writing, totaling ...

The Order and the Other

The Order and the Other

By Joseph W. Campbell
Categories: Literature
Series: Children's Literature Association Series

In the mid- to late 2000s, the United States witnessed a boom in dystopian novels and films intended for young audiences. At that time, many literary critics, journalists, and educators grouped dystopian ...

Poverty Politics

Poverty Politics

By Sarah Robertson
Categories: Ethnography

Representations of southern poor whites have long shifted between romanticization and demonization. At worst, poor southern whites are aligned with racism, bigotry, and right-wing extremism, and, at best, ...

A Tyrannous Eye

A Tyrannous Eye

By Pearl Amelia McHaney
Categories: Literature

A Tyrannous Eye: Eudora Welty’s Nonfiction and Photographs is the first book-length study of Eudora Welty’s full range of achievements in nonfiction and photography. A preeminent Welty scholar, Pearl ...

Faulkner and History

Faulkner and History

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

Contributions by W. Fitzhugh Brundage, Jordan Burke, Rebecca Bennett Clark, James C. Cobb, Anna Creadick, Colin Dayan, Wai Chee Dimock, Sarah E. Gardner, Hannah Godwin, Brooks E. Hefner, Andrew B. Leiter, ...

Faulkner and Money

Faulkner and Money

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

Contributions by Ted Atkinson, Gloria J. Burgess, David A. Davis, Sarah E. Gardner, Richard Godden, Ryan Heryford, Robert Jackson, Gavin Jones, Mary A. Knighton, Peter Lurie, John T. Matthews, Myka Tucker-Abramson, ...

Ernest J. Gaines

Ernest J. Gaines

Edited by Marcia Gaudet
Categories: Literature
Series: Literary Conversations Series

As the acclaimed author of The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman and A Lesson Before Dying, Ernest J. Gaines (b. 1933) has been publishing stories and novels for more than sixty years. His brilliant ...

Labor Pains

Labor Pains

By Christin Marie Taylor
Categories: Literature
Series: Margaret Walker Alexander Series in African American Studies

From the 1930s to the 1960s, the Popular Front produced a significant era in African American literary radicalism. While scholars have long associated the black radicalism of the Popular Front with the ...