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

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

Edited by Jay Watson, Jaime Harker, James G. Thomas, and 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, ...

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 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—as with Larry Brown and Lee Smith—as a purveyor of the working-class, contemporary ...

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 ...

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 Money

Edited by Jay Watson, James G. Thomas, and 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, ...

Faulkner and History

Edited by Jay Watson, James G. Thomas, and 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, ...

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 ...