A provocative reckoning of the challenging new direction southern literature has taken in the works of nine authors The literature of the contemporary South might best be understood for its discontinuity with the literary past. At odds with traditions of the Southern Renascence, southern literature of today sharply refutes the Nashville Agrarians and shares few of Faulkners and Weltys concerns about place, community, and history. This sweeping study of the literary Souths new direction focuses on nine well established writers who, by breaking away from the firmly ensconced myths, have emerged as an iconoclastic generation Harry Crews, Dorothy Allison, Bobbie Ann Mason, Larry Brown, Kaye Gibbons, Randall Kenan, Richard Ford, Cormac McCarthy, and Barry Hannah. Resisting the modernist methods of the past, they have established their own postmodern ground beyond the shadow of their predecessors. This shift in authorial perspective is a significant indicator of the future of southern writing. Crewss seminal role as a groundbreaking "poor white" author, Masons and Crewss portrayals of rural life, and Allisons and Browns frank portrayals of the lower class pose a challenge to traditional depictions of the South. The dissenting voices of Gibbons and Kenan, who focus on gender, race, and sexuality, create fiction that is at once identifiably "southern" and also distinctly subversive. Gibbonss iconoclastic stance toward patriarchy, like the outsiders critique of community found in...

Binding: Paperback;234 pages; Publisher: University Press of Mississippi; Classification: DSRC; Weight: 453 g; Dimensions: 228 x 152 x 13

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