The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Volume 9: Literature (The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture (9))

Offering a comprehensive view of the South's literary landscape, past and present, this volume of __The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture__ celebrates the region's ever-flourishing literary culture and recognizes the ongoing evolution of the southern literary canon. As new writers draw upon and reshape previous traditions, southern literature has broadened and deepened its connections not just to the American literary mainstream but also to world literatures--a development thoughtfully explored in the essays here.Greatly expanding the content of the literature section in the original __Encyclopedia__, this volume includes 31 thematic essays addressing major genres of literature; theoretical categories, such as regionalism, the southern gothic, and agrarianism; and themes in southern writing, such as food, religion, and sexuality. Most striking is the fivefold increase in the number of biographical entries, which introduce southern novelists, playwrights, poets, and critics. Special attention is given to contemporary writers and other individuals who have not been widely covered in previous scholarship. Content: Literature. African American literature -- Agrarianism in literature -- Appalachian literature -- Autobiography and memoir -- Biography -- Blues literature -- Civil rights in literature -- Civil War in literature -- Detective fiction -- Folklore in literature -- Food in literature -- Fugitives and agrarians -- Gender and sexuality in literature -- Globalization and Southern literature -- Humor -- Indian literature -- Nature writing and writers -- New critics -- North in literature -- Periodicals -- Poetry -- Popular literature -- Postcolonial Southern literature -- Postsouthern literature -- Publishing -- Regionalism and local color -- Religion and literature -- Southern gothic -- Theater, early -- Theater, modern and contemporary -- Travel writing. James Agee -- Conrad Aiken -- James Lane Allen -- Dorothy Allison -- A.R. Ammons -- Raymond Andrews -- Tina McElroy Ansa -- James Applewhite -- Anne Wetzell Armstrong -- Harriette Simpson Arnow -- Ace Atkins -- David Baldacci -- John Barth -- Frederick Barthelme -- Rick Bass -- Hamilton Basso -- Richard Bausch -- Madison Smartt Bell -- Wendell Berry -- Doris Betts -- Joseph L. Blotner -- Roy Blount, Jr. -- Sherwood Bonner -- Arna Bontemps -- Roark Bradford -- Rick Bragg -- Henry Hershel Brickell -- Cleanth Brooks -- Larry Brown -- Rita Mae Brown -- Sterling Allen Brown -- William Wells Brown -- James Lee Burke -- William Byrd, II -- James Branch Cabell -- George Washington Cable -- Erskine Caldwell -- Will D. Campbell -- Truman Capote -- W.J. Cash -- Fred Chappell -- Kelly Cherry -- Mary Boykin Chesnut -- Charles W. Chesnutt -- Kate Chopin -- Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain) -- David Cohn -- Pat Conroy -- Harry Crews -- David Crockett (Davy) -- Mart Crowley -- Olive Tilford Dargan -- Guy Davenport -- Donald Davidson -- Borden Deal -- James Dickey -- Thomas Dixon, Jr. -- Ellen Douglas -- Frederick Douglass -- Rita Dove -- W.E.B. Du Bois -- Wilma Dykeman -- Clyde Edgerton -- Ralph Ellison -- Augusta Jane Evans -- Percival Everett -- William Faulkner -- Nikky Finney -- Zelda Fitzgerald -- John Gould Fletcher -- Horton Foote -- Shelby Foote -- Jesse Hill Ford -- Richard Ford -- John Fox, Jr. -- William Price Fox -- John Hope Franklin -- Tom Franklin -- Charles Frazier -- Ernest J. Gaines -- Frances Ormond Jones -- George Garrett -- Tim Gautreaux -- Kaye Gibbons -- Ellen Gilchrist -- Nikki Giovanni -- Ellen Glasgow -- Gail Godwin -- Caroline Gordon -- Shirley Ann Grau -- Paul Green -- Melissa Fay Greene -- Jim Grimsley -- John Grisham -- Lewis Grizzard -- Winston Groom -- Anthony Grooms -- Allan Gurganus -- Alex Haley -- Barry Hannah -- Elizabeth Hardwick -- Donald Harington -- Frances Ellen Watkins Harper -- George Washington Harris -- Joel Chandler Harris -- Thomas Harris -- Brooks Haxton -- Lillian Hellman -- Beth Henley -- DuBose Heyward -- Endesha Ida Mae Holland -- C. Hugh Holman -- Mary Hood -- Johnson Jones Hooper -- Jay Broadus Hubbell -- Josephine Humphrey -- Zora Neale Hurston -- Blyden Jackson -- Randall Jarrell -- Thomas Jefferson -- James Weldon Johnson -- Mary Johnston -- Madison Jones -- Randal Kenan -- John Pendleton Kennedy -- Florence King -- Grace King -- Barbara Kingsolver -- Etheridge Knight -- Yusef Kommunyakaa -- Sidney Lanier -- Harper Lee -- Henry Clay Lewis -- Augustus Baldwin Longstreet -- Grace Lumpkin -- Katherine Du Pre Lumpkin -- Andrew Lytle -- David Madden -- Jeff Daniel Marion -- Doug Marlette -- Bobbie Ann Mason -- Cormac McCarthy -- Jill McCorkle -- Carson McCullers -- H.L. Mencken -- Jim Wayne Miller -- Jason Milligan -- Margaret Mitchell -- Anne Moody -- Robert Morgan -- Willie Morris -- Toni Morrison -- Mary Noailles Murfree (Charles Egbert Craddock) -- Albert Murray -- Frances Newman -- Lewis Nordan -- Flannery O'Connor -- Guy Owen -- Thomas Nelson Page -- Walker Percy -- William Alexander Percy -- Julia Mood Peterkin -- Jayne Anne Phillips -- Edgar Allan Poe -- Katherine Anne Porter -- Charles Portis -- Reynolds Price -- Vance Randolph -- John Crowe Ransom -- Ron Rash -- Janisse Ray -- Ishmael Reed -- John Shelton Reed -- Mark Richard -- Elizabeth Madox Roberts -- Louis D. Rubin, Jr. -- Archibald Hamilton Rutledge -- Dori Sanders -- Evelyn Scott -- James Seay -- Mary Lee Settle -- William Gilmore Simms -- Lewis P. Simpson -- Dave Smith -- Lee Smith -- Lillian Smith -- E.D.E.N. Southworth -- Frank Stanford -- Darcey Steinke -- James Still -- James Street -- T.S. Stribling -- Jesse Hilton Stuart -- Mary Routh (Ruth) McEnery Stuart -- William Styron -- Walter Sullivan -- Allen Tate -- Peter Taylor -- Thomas Bangs Thorpe -- Henry Timrod -- John Kennedy Toole -- Jean Toomer -- Natasha Trethewey -- Anne Tyler -- Alice Walker -- Margaret Walker -- Robert Penn Warren -- Booker T. Washington -- Samuel Rush Watkins -- Eudora Welty -- James Wilcox -- Ben Ames Williams -- Tennessee Williams -- Thomas Wolfe -- Tom Wolfe -- C. Vann Woodward -- Richard Wright -- Steve Yarbrough -- Frank Yerby -- Al Young -- Stark Young -- Thomas Daniel Young. Volume 1: Religion. In This Volume Of The New Encyclopedia Of Southern Culture, Contributors Have Revised Entries From The Original Encyclopedia On Topics Ranging From Religious Broadcasting To Snake Handling And Added New Entries On Such Topics As Asian Religions, Latino Religion, New Age Religion, Islam, Native American Religion, And Social Activism. With The Contributions Of More Than 60 Authorities In The Field--including Paul Harvey, Loyal Jones, Wayne Flynt, And Samuel F. Weber--this Volume Is An Accessibly Written, Up-to-date Reference To Religious Culture In The American South. Volume 2: Geography. This Volume Addresses General Topics Of Cultural Geographic Interest, Such As Appalachia, Exiles And Expatriates, Latino And Jewish Populations, Migration Patterns, And The Profound Disneyfication Of Central Florida. Entries With A More Concentrated Focus Examine Major Cities, Such As Atlanta, New Orleans, And Memphis; The Influence Of Black And White Southern Migrants On Northern Cities; And Individual Subregions, Such As The Piedmont, Piney Woods, Tidewater, And Delta. Putting Together The Disparate Pieces That Make Up The Place Called The South, This Volume Sets The Scene For The Discussions In All The Other Volumes Of The New Encyclopedia Of Southern Culture. Volume 3: History. This Volume Broadly Surveys History In The American South From The Paleoindian Period (approximately 8000 B.c.e.) To The Present. In 118 Essays, Contributors Cover The Turbulent Past Of The Region That Has Witnessed Frequent Racial Conflict, A Bloody Civil War Fought And Lost On Its Soil, Massive In- And Out-migration, Major Economic Transformations, And A Civil Rights Movement That Brought Fundamental Change To The Social Order. Volume 4: Myth, Manners, And Memory. This Volume Addresses The Cultural, Social, And Intellectual Terrain Of Myth, Manners, And Historical Memory In The American South. Evaluating How A Distinct Southern Identity Has Been Created, Recreated, And Performed Through Memories That Blur The Line Between Fact And Fiction, This Volume Paints A Broad, Multihued Picture Of The Region Seen Through The Lenses Of Belief And Cultural Practice. V. 1. Religion, Vol. Ed. Samuel S. Hill -- V. 2. Geography, Vol. Ed. Richard Pillsbury -- V. 3. History, Vol. Ed. Charles Reagan Wilson -- V. 4. Myth, Manners, And Memory, Vol. Ed. Charles Reagan Wilson -- V. 5 Language, Vol. Ed. Michael Montgomery & Ellen Johnson -- V. 6 Ethnicity. Vol. Ed. Celeste Ray -- V. 7. Foodways, Vol. Ed. John T. Edge -- V. 8. Environment, Vol. Ed. Martin Melosi -- V. 9. Literature, Vol. Ed. M. Thomas Inge -- V. 10. Law & Politics, Vol. Ed. James W. Ely Jr. & Bradley G. Bond -- V. 11. Agriculture & Industry, Vol. Ed. Melissa Walker & James C. Cobb -- V. 12. Music, Vol. Ed. Bill Malone -- V. 13. Gender, Vol. Ed. Nancy Bercaw & Ted Ownby -- V. 14. Folklife, Vol. Ed. Glenn Hinson & William Ferris -- V. 15. Urbanization, Vol. Ed. Wanda Rushing -- V. 16. Sports & Recreation, , Vol. Ed. Harvey H. Jackson Iii -- V. 17. Education, Vol. Ed Clarence L. Mohr -- V. 18. Media, Vol. Ed Allison Graham & Sharon Montheith -- V. 19. Violence, Vol. Ed Amy Louise Wood -- V. 20. Social Class, Vol. Ed Larry J. Griffin & Peggy G. Hargis -- V. 21. Art And Architecture, Vol. Ed Judith H. Bonner & Estill Curtis Pennington -- V. 22. Science And Medicine, Vol. Ed James G. Thomas, Jr. & Charles Reagan Wilson -- V. 23. Folk Art, Vol. Ed Carol Crown & Cheryl Rivers -- V. 24. Race, Vol. Ed Thomas C. Holt & Laurie B. Green. Charles Reagan Wilson, General Editor ; James G. Thomas Jr., Managing Editor ; Ann J. Abadie, Associate Editor. Rev. Ed. Of: Encyclopedia Of Southern Culture. 1991. Sponsored By The Center For The Study Of Southern Culture At The University Of Mississippi. Includes Bibliographical References And Indexes. "Offering a comprehensive view of the South's literary landscape, past and present, this volume ofThe New Encyclopedia of Southern Culturecelebrates the region's ever-flourishing literary culture and recognizes the ongoing evolution of the southern literary canon. As new writers draw upon and reshape previous traditions, southern literature has broadened and deepened its connections not just to the American literary mainstream but also to world literatures--a development thoughtfully explored in the essays here. Greatly expanding the content of the literature section in the originalEncyclopedia, this volume includes 31 thematic essays addressing major genres of literature; theoretical categories, such as regionalism, the southern gothic, and agrarianism; and themes in southern writing, such as food, religion, and sexuality. Most striking is the fivefold increase in the number of biographical entries, which introduce southern novelists, playwrights, poets, and critics. Special attention is given to contemporary writers and other individuals who have not been widely covered in previous scholarship."--JSTOR website (viewed April 13, 2017) Offering a comprehensive view of the South's literary landscape, past and present, this volume of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture celebrates the region's ever-flourishing literary culture and recognizes the ongoing evolution of the southern literary canon. As new writers draw upon and reshape previous traditions, southern literature has broadened and deepened its connections not just to the American literary mainstream but also to world literatures--a development thoughtfully explored in the essays here. Greatly expanding the content of the literature section in the original Encyclopedia , this volume includes 31 thematic essays addressing major genres of literature; theoretical categories, such as regionalism, the southern gothic, and agrarianism; and themes in southern writing, such as food, religion, and sexuality. Most striking is the fivefold increase in the number of biographical entries, which introduce southern novelists, playwrights, poets, and critics. Special attention is given to contemporary writers and other individuals who have not been widely covered in previous scholarship. Celebrates the South's literary culture and recognizes the evolution of the southern literary canon. This volume includes 31 thematic essays addressing major genres of literature; theoretical categories, such as regionalism, the southern gothic, and agrarianism; and themes in southern writing, such as food, religion, and sexuality.