Rough South, Rural South : Region and Class in Recent Southern Literature /

"Essays in Rough South, Rural South describe and discuss the work of southern writers who began their careers in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. They fall into two categories. Some, born into the working class, strove to become writers and learned without benefit of higher...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Perry, Keith Ronald, 1967- (Editor ), Cash, Jean W., 1938- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Jackson, Mississippi : University Press of Mississippi, 2016.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Working class in literature.
Literature and society.
Literature.
Intellectual life.
Authors, American.
American literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Litterature americaine > 21e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Litterature americaine > 20e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Litterature et societe > États-Unis > Histoire.
Travailleurs dans la litterature.
Écrivains americains > États-Unis (Sud) > Histoire.
American literature > 21st century > History and criticism.
American literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Literature and society > United States > History.
Authors, American > Southern States > History.
American literature > Southern States > History and criticism.
United States.
Southern States.
États-Unis (Sud) > Dans la litterature.
Southern States > Intellectual life.
Southern States > In literature.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: rough South, rural South / Jean W. Cash
  • "Rough South": beginnings / Gary Hawkins
  • From "The rise of southern redneck and white trash writers" / Erik Bledsoe
  • Harry Crews: progenitor / David K. Jeffrey
  • Elevated above the real: the poor white southerner in Cormac McCarthy's early novels / Marcus Hamilton
  • Tim McLaurin: universality from rural North Carolina / bes Stark Spangler
  • Larry Brown: a firefighter finds his voice / Joe Samuel Starnes
  • Dorothy Allison: revising the "white trash" narrative / Emily Langhorne
  • A world almost rotten: the fiction of William Gay / William Giraldi
  • "Recover the paths": salvage in Tom Franklin's fiction / Joan Wylie Hall
  • The rough South of Ron Rash / Thomas AErvold Bjerre
  • "Everything worth doing hurts like Hell": the rough South of Tim Gautreaux / L. Lamar Nisly
  • Education is everything: Chris Offutt's eastern Kentucky / Peter Farris
  • Daniel Woodrell, Ozarker / Shawn E. Miller
  • Kaye Gibbons: tough women in a rough South / Rebecca Godwin
  • Lee Smith: a diamond from the rough / Linda Byrd Cook
  • A country for old men: the South of Clyde Edgerton's early novels / Robert Donahoo
  • Jill McCorkle: the rough South from one remove / Barbara Bennett
  • "The spiritual energy of the trees": nature, place, and religion in Silas House's Crow County trilogy / Scott Hamilton Suter
  • Steve Yarbrough: transplanted Mississippian / Thomas E. Dasher
  • Once a paradise: Brad Watson's southern afterlife / Wade Newhouse
  • Twenty-first-century writers: the rural southern tradition continues / Jean W. Cash
  • Trash or treasure? Images of the hardscrabble South in twenty-first-century film / Richard Gaughran
  • Notes on contributors
  • Photograph credits
  • Index.

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