Teaching the Works of Eudora Welty

Edited by Mae Miller Claxton & Julia Eichelberger
Categories: Literature

Contributions by Jacob Agner, Sharon Deykin Baris, Carolyn J. Brown, Lee Anne Bryan, Keith Cartwright, Stuart Christie, Mae Miller Claxton, Virginia Ottley Craighill, David A. Davis, Susan V. Donaldson, ...

Tell about Night Flowers

Edited by Julia Eichelberger
Categories: Literature

Tell about Night Flowers presents previously unpublished letters by Eudora Welty, selected and annotated by scholar Julia Eichelberger. Welty published many of her best-known works in the 1940s: A Curtain ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

The Writing Life

By Ellen Gilchrist
Categories: Biography And Memoir

Celebrated author Ellen Gilchrist played many roles—writer and speaker, wife and lover, mother and grandmother. But she had never tackled the role of teacher.

Offered the opportunity to teach creative ...

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

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 ...

Sanctuaries of Segregation

By Carter Dalton Lyon
Categories: African American Studies

Winner of the 2017 Eudora Welty Prize

Sanctuaries of Segregation provides the first comprehensive analysis of the Jackson, Mississippi, church visit campaign of 1963-1964 and the efforts by segregationists ...

Eudora Welty

Edited by Peggy Whitman Prenshaw
Categories: Literature

This collection of essays about the writings of Eudora Welty reflects a range of Welty criticism. Themes, forms, and stylistic features in her work are given careful consideration by some of the most ...