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Informationen zum Autor Richard Gray is Professor in the Department of Literature at the University of Essex. His books include The Literature of Memory: Modern Writers of the American South, Writing the South: Ideas of an American Region (which won the C. Hugh Holman Award from the Society for the Study of Southern Literature), American Poetry of the Twentieth Century, The Life of William Faulkner: A Critical Biography, Southern Aberrations: Writers of the American South and the Problems of Regionalism, and A History of American Literature . He is also editor of a number of collections and anthologies, and a regular reviewer for various newspapers and journals, including the Times Literary Supplement and the Literary Review . He is the first specialist in American literature to be elected a Fellow of the British Academy. Owen Robinson is Lecturer in American Literature at the University of Essex. He is the author of several articles on the novels of William Faulkner, and is editing A Routledge Guide to Light in August . He is currently working on writing centred on New Orleans, and on reader-writer relations in African American literature. Klappentext 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. Consisting of over 30 original contributions, each of them written by an acknowledged authority in their field, the Companion reveals the diversity of the Southern region, as expressed in different forms of thought, work, and imaginative play.The first major section, concentrating on themes and issues, looks at the distinctive cultural characteristics of the American South and includes discussion of the visual arts, music, society, history and politics. The second focuses on writers who have made significant contributions to Southern thinking and the imaginative reinvention of the South. These include Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain, William Faulkner, Zora Neale Hurston, Flannery O'Connor and Eudora Welty, and range from the earliest writers in the region to all those - black and white, male and female - who are writing now. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments x Notes on Contributors xii List of Plates xviii PART I Introduction 1 1 Writing Southern Cultures 3 Richard Gray PART II Themes and Issues 27 2 The First Southerners: Jamestown's Colonists as Exemplary Figures 29 Mary C. Fuller 3 Slave Narratives 43 Jerry Phillips 4 Plantation Fiction 58 John M. Grammer 5 The Slavery Debate 76 Susan-Mary Grant 6 Southern Writers and the Civil War 93 Susan-Mary Grant 7 Visualizing the Poor White 110 Stuart Kidd 8 Southern Appalachia 130 Linda Tate 9 The Southern Literary Renaissance 148 Robert H. Brinkmeyer, Jr. 10 The Native-American South 166 Mick Gidley and Ben Gidley 11 Southern Music 185 John White 12 Country Music 203 Barbara Ching 13 The Civil Rights Debate 221 Richard H. King 14 Southern Religion(s) 238 Charles Reagan Wilson 15 African-American Fiction and Poetry 255 R. J. Ellis 16 Southern Drama 280 Mark Zelinsky and Amy Cuomo 17 Sports in the South 297 Diane Roberts 18 The South Through Other Eyes 317 Helen Taylor 19 The South in Popular Culture 335 Allison Graham PART III Individuals and Movements 353 20 Edgar Alla...
