A Companion to the Literature and Culture of the American South (Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture)

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) Introduces readers to the variously rich and strange aspects of Southern writing and culture and shows how intimately both are, and always have been, involved in the past and present of the region. It shows how Southern culture is at once historical and multiple - a plural culture