This anthology represents the best work of important Southern writers of the twentieth century - from the 1920s (and the beginning of the Southern Renaissance) to the present. The volume includes examples of fiction, drama, poetry, essays, interviews, and reminiscences. Ben Forkner and Patrick Samway, who edited the highly acclaimed STORIES OF THE MODERN SOUTH, draw from the works of such greats as Ernest Gaines, William Faulkner, C. Vann Woodward, Allen Tate, Eudora Welty, Zora Neale Hurston, Caroline Gordon, Reynolds Price, Robert Penn Warren, Alice Walker, Andrew Lytle, Flannery O'Connor, William Styron, James Dickey, Truman Capote, James Agee, Lillian Hellman, Peter Taylor, Katherine Anne Porter, Thomas Wolfe, Carson McCullers, Tennessee Williams, and many more.
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"Lovers of fine writing will find the hefty sampling of twentieth-century southern U.S. literature by black and white men and women to be irresistible... a dignified yet lively testament to the fact that the American South represents, among many other things, a particularly distinctive body of literature." --Booklist
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Ben Forkner and Patrick Samway, S.J., both received their PhDs in American Literature from the University of North Carolina. Dr. Forkner is Director of American Studies at the University of Angers, France, and was editor of the anthology MODERN IRISH SHORT STORIES. Fr. Samway teaches at Fordham University and is literary editor of the weekly journal America.
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Being a Southerner myself, I have always been interested in southern writing. This book brings together an excellent diversity of material that shows the range of talent produced by Southern writer's. An added benefit is the poetry section with poems from little known, at least to me, writer's. Try James Whitehead's "About a Year After He Got Married He Would Sit Alone in an Abandoned Shack in a Cotton Field Enjoying Himself," and yes, that really is the full title of the poem. There is a nice selection of poems by John Crowe Ransom, a poet whose books I've had trouble finding. One can read interviews with Shelby Foote, Walker Percy, and Faulkner that are fasinating in the little known tidbits of informaton about themselves and others. All in all, this is a very good book to have for the reading enjoyment of some of the best writer's America has produced. The reminiscences by Willie Morris about his high school baseball team will bring back memories of anyone who has ever played a pickup ball game in a cow pasture. You'll find stories by Reynolds Price,Peter Taylor,Thomas Wolfe, and others.
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