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Society for the Study of Southern Literature 2022

SSSL 2022

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World War I and Southern Modernism

World War I and Southern Modernism

By David A. Davis
Categories: Literature

Winner of the 2018 Eudora Welty Prize

When the United States entered World War I, parts of the country had developed industries, urban cultures, and democratic political systems, but the South lagged behind, ...

Conversations with Colson Whitehead

Conversations with Colson Whitehead

Edited by Derek C. Maus
Categories: Literature
Series: Literary Conversations Series

Since the publication of his first novel, The Intuitionist, in 1999, Colson Whitehead (b. 1969) has been considered an important new voice in American literature. His seven subsequent books have done ...

Faulkner and the Native South

Faulkner and the Native South

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

Contributions by Eric Gary Anderson, Melanie R. Anderson, Jodi A. Byrd, Gina Caison, Robbie Ethridge, Patricia Galloway, LeAnne Howe, John Wharton Lowe, Katherine M. B. Osburn, Melanie Benson Taylor, ...

Leaving the South

Leaving the South

By Mary Weaks-Baxter
Categories: Literature

Millions of Southerners left the South in the twentieth century in a mass migration that has, in many ways, rewoven the fabric of American society on cultural, political, and economic levels. Because ...

Occasions

Occasions

By Eudora Welty
Edited by Pearl Amelia McHaney
Categories: Literature

Occasions is a celebration of the short works of one of America’s most beloved writers. To mark the centennial of Eudora Welty’s birth, Pearl Amelia McHaney collected more than sixty pieces by Welty ...

Faulkner and the Black Literatures of the Americas

Faulkner and the Black Literatures of the Americas

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

Contributions by Ted Atkinson, Thadious M. Davis, Matthew Dischinger, Dotty Dye, Chiyuma Elliott, Doreen Fowler, Joseph Fruscione, T. Austin Graham, Rachel Eliza Griffiths, Derrick Harriell, Lisa Hinrichsen, ...

Southern Writers on Writing

Southern Writers on Writing

Edited by Susan Cushman
Foreword by Alan Lightman
Categories: Literature

Contributions by Julie Cantrell, Katherine Clark, Susan Cushman, Jim Dees, Clyde Edgerton, W. Ralph Eubanks, John M. Floyd, Joe Formichella, Patti Callahan Henry, Jennifer Horne, Ravi Howard, Suzanne ...

Invisible Ball of Dreams

Invisible Ball of Dreams

By Emily Ruth Rutter
Categories: Literature

Winner of the 2018 John Coates Next Generation Award from the Negro Leagues Research Committee of the Society for American Baseball Research

Although many Americans think of Jackie Robinson when considering ...

Conversations with Will D. Campbell

Conversations with Will D. Campbell

Edited by Tom Royals
Categories: Literature
Series: Literary Conversations Series
Literary Conversations Series

Conversations with Will D. Campbell is the first collection of interviews with the southern preacher, activist, and author best known for his involvement with the civil rights movement. Ranging from a ...

Forty Acres and a Goat

Forty Acres and a Goat

By Will D. Campbell
Categories: Biography And Memoir
Series: Banner Books

In Forty Acres and a Goat, Will D. Campbell (1924–2013) picks up where the award-winning Brother to a Dragonfly leaves off, accounting his adventures during the tumultuous civil rights era. As he navigates ...