Friendship and Sympathy - Communities of Southern Women Writers

From Library Journal
This collection of essays, reviews, speeches, and interviews details the interaction among a number of Southwestern women writers, including Katherine Anne Porter, Eudora Welty, Zora Neale Hurston, Flannery O'Connor, Anne Tyler, Alice Walker, and Josephine Humphreys. Occupation, gender, and region conspire to join these authors in kinship, and, like family members, they offer criticism, support, admiration, and understanding to one another. This anthology will be useful both in the college classroom and for the general reader. It is sure to enlighten, entertain, inspire, and delight.
- Dorothy Golden, Georgia Southern Univ., Statesboro

About the author

Rosemary M. Magee is associate dean of Emory College and is editor of Conversations with Flannery O'Connor, published by University Press of Mississippi.

Summary

This collection of essays, reviews, speeches, and interviews details the interaction among a number of Southwestern women writers, including Katherine Anne Porter, Eudora Welty, Zora Neale Hurston, Flannery O'Connor, Anne Tyler, Alice Walker, and Josephine Humphreys.

Product details

• Assisted by: Rosemary M. Magee (Editor)
• Publisher: University Press Of Mississippi
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.1992
• EAN: 9780878055456
• ISBN: 978-0-87805-545-6
• No. of pages: 360
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 21 mm
• Weight: 584 g
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies