紹介
From slave narratives to the Civil War, and from country music to Southern sport, this Companion is the definitive guide to the literature and culture of the American South. * Includes discussion of the visual arts, music, society, history, and politics in the region * Combines treatment of major literary works and historical events with a survey of broader themes, movements and issues * Explores the work of Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain, William Faulkner, Zora Neale Huston, Flannery O'Connor and Eudora Welty, as well as those - black and white, male and female - who are writing now * Co-edited by the esteemed scholar Richard Gray, author of the acclaimed volume, A History of American Literature (Blackwell, 2003)
目次
Acknowledgments. Notes on Contributors. List of Plates. Part I: Introduction. 1. Writing Southern Cultures: Richard Gray (University of Essex). Part II: Themes and Issues. 2. The First Southerners: Jamestown's Colonists as Exemplary Figures: Mary C. Fuller (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). 3. Slave Narratives: Jerry Phillips (University of Connecticut). 4. Plantation Fiction: John M. Grammer (University of the South, in Sewanee). 5. The Slavery Debate: Susan-Mary Grant (University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne). 6. Southern Writers and the Civil War: Susan-Mary Grant (University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne). 7. Visualizing the Poor White: Stuart Kidd (University of Reading). 8. Southern Appalachia: Linda Tate (Shepherd College). 9. The Southern Literary Renaissance: Robert J. Brinkmeyer, Jr. (the University of Arkansas). 10. The Native-American South: Mick Gidley (University of Leeds) and Ben Gidley (Goldsmiths College, University of London). 11. Southern Music: John White (University of Hull). 12. Country Music: Barbara Ching (University of Memphis). 13. The Civil Rights Debate: Richard H. King (Nottingham University). 14. Southern Religion(s): Charles Reagan Wilson (University of Mississippi). 15. African-American Fiction and Poetry: R. J. Ellis (Nottingham Trent University). 16. Southern Drama: Mark Zelinsky (Saint Joseph College) and Amy Cuomo (State University of West Georgia). 17. Sports in the South: Diane Roberts (University of Alabama). 18. The South Through Other Eyes: Helen Taylor (University of Exeter). 19. The South in Popular Culture: Allison Graham (University of Memphis). Part III: Individuals and Movements. 20. Edgar Allan Poe: Henry Claridge (University of Kent). 21. Southwestern Humor: John M. Grammar (University of the South, in Sewanee). 22. Mark Twain: Peter Stoneley (Queen's University, Belfast). 23. Ellen Glasgow: Julius Rowan Raper (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill). 24. Fugitives and Agrarians: Andrew Hook (University of Glasgow). 25. William Faulkner: Richard Godden (University of Sussex). 26. Literature of the African-American Great Migration: Kate Fullbrook (deceased). 27. Zora Neale Hurston: Will Brantley (Middle Tennessee State University). 28. Flannery O'Connor: Susan Castillo (King's College, London). 29. Eudora Welty: Jan Nordby Gretlund (University of Southern Denmark). 30. Oral Culture and Southern Fiction: Jill Terry (University College Worcester). 31. Recent and Contemporary Women Writers in the South: Sharon Monteith (Nottingham University). 32. The South in Contemporary African-American Fiction: A. Robert Lee (Nihon University, Tokyo). 33. Writing in the South Now: Matthew Guinn (University of Alabama at Birmingham). Part IV: Afterword. 34. Searching for Southern Identity: James C. Cobb (University of Georgia). Index.
