Southern writers on writing /
The South is often misunderstood on the national stage, characterized by its struggles with poverty, education and racism, yet the region has yielded an abundance of undeniably great literature. In Southern Writers on Writing, Susan Cushman collects twenty-six writers from across the South whose wor...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Jackson :
University Press of Mississippi,
[2018]
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| Summary: | The South is often misunderstood on the national stage, characterized by its struggles with poverty, education and racism, yet the region has yielded an abundance of undeniably great literature. In Southern Writers on Writing, Susan Cushman collects twenty-six writers from across the South whose work celebrates southern culture and shapes the landscape of contemporary Southern literature. Contributors hail from Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, Tennessee, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia and Florida. Contributors like Lee Smith, Michael Farris Smith, W. Ralph Eubanks and Harrison Scott Key, among others, explore issues like, race, politics and family and the apex of those issues colliding. It discusses landscapes, voices in the South and how writers write. |
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| Item Description: | Includes index. |
| Physical Description: | xx, 200 pages ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9781496815002 1496815009 |