The fiction of Doris Betts, Barry Hannah, Cormac McCarthy, Madison Smartt Bell, Richard Ford, Rick Bass, Barbara Kingsolver, Chris Offutt, Frederick Barthelme,

Taking Albert Murray’s South to a Very Old Place as a starting point, contributors to this exciting collection continue the work of critically and creatively

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 centur

Defining Southern Literature delineates several phases in the story of Southern literature. Debate over what makes Southern literature different - or even South

The literature of the contemporary South might best be understood for its discontinuity with the literary past. At odds with traditions of the Southern Renascen