UID:
edocfu_9959237135602883
Format:
1 online resource (306 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
0-8131-8951-9
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0-8131-5726-9
Content:
Since the end of World War II, the South has experienced a greater awareness of growth and of its accompanying tensions than other regions of the United States. The rapid change that climaxed with the war in Vietnam, the Cold War, civil rights demonstrations, and Watergate has forced the traditional South to come to terms with social upheaval. As the essays collected in Southern Writers at Century's End point out, southern writing: since 1975 reflects the confusion and violence that have characterized late-twentieth-century public culture.These essays consider the work of twenty-one of the fo
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Description based upon print version of record.
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Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Foreword; Introduction; Part I. New Faces; Randall Garrett Kenan: Myth and Reality in Tims Creek; Mary Hood: The Dark Side of the Moon; James Wilcox: The Normality of Madness; John Grisham: Obsessive Imagery; James Lee Burke: "". . . always the first inning""; T.R. Pearson: Debatable Heroes; Tim McLaurin: Keeper of the Moon; Richard Marius: ""The Brooding Mystery""; Robert Drake: The Railroad as Metaphor; Kaye Gibbons: Her Full-Time Women; Part II. Old Friends; Barry Hannah: Geronimo Rex in Retrospect
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Anne Tyler: Wrestling with the ""lowlier angel""Bobbie Ann Mason: Searching for Home; Cormac McCarthy: Restless Seekers; Alice Walker: The Color Purple as Allegory; Fred Chappell: Midquestions; Josephine Humphreys: ""Hope's last stand""; Richard Ford: Postmodern Cowboys; Andre Dubus: ""Never Truly Members""; Clyde Edgerton: Death and Dying; Lee Smith: Ivy Rowe as Woman and Artist; Works Cited; Contributors; Index
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-322-59839-8
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8131-2032-2
Language:
English
Keywords:
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