Reconsidering Flannery O'Connor

Edited by Alison Arant & Jordan Cofer
Afterword by Marshall Bruce Gentry
Categories: Literature

Contributions by Lindsay Alexander, Alison Arant, Alicia Matheny Beeson, Eric Bennett, Gina Caison, Jordan Cofer, Doug Davis, Doreen Fowler, Marshall Bruce Gentry, Bruce Henderson, Monica C. Miller, William ...

Mississippi Poets

By Catharine Savage Brosman
Categories: Mississippi

Mississippi has produced outstanding writers in numbers far out of proportion to its population. Their contributions to American literature, including poetry, rank as enormous. Mississippi Poets: A Literary ...

Fifty Years after Faulkner

Edited by Jay Watson & Ann J. Abadie
Categories: Literature
Series: Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Series

Contributions by Ted Atkinson, Michael P. Bibler, Deborah Clarke, David A. Davis, David M. Earle, Jason D. Fichtel, Elizabeth Fielder, Joseph Fruscione, Matthew Pratt Guterl, Patrick E. Horn, Cheryl Lester, ...

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 ...

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, 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, ...

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—along 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 ...