Author: James Wood DavidsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 650
Book Description
The Living Writers of the South
Author: James Wood DavidsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 650
Book Description
Writers of the American South
Author: Hugh HowardPublisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
"Exploring the imaginative link between Southern authors and their geography and how profoundly it shapes their writing, Writers of the American South offers intimate and engaging portraits of twenty-two of the South's most important contributors to American literature. We learn that three generations of writers - Faulkner, Shelby Foote, and Ann Patchett - share the same dreamscape, the battlefield at Shiloh. The compelling tension in Carl Hiaasen's life is revealed as the ruthless development around him on the fragile Florida Keys." "Through a combination of vibrant and evocative photographs and exceptional story-telling and interviews (and including information for visiting the houses that are open to the public). Writers of the American South embarks on a Southern sojourn that illuminates the lives and homes of the region's literary royalty, from whose creative genius unforgettable characters have been conceived, extraordinary stories have been crafted, and classics have emerged."--BOOK JACKET.
The Living Writers of the South
Author: James Wood DavidsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 660
Book Description
The Living Female Writers of the South
Author: AnonymousPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3382801485
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 597
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1872. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
A Measure of Belonging
Author: Cinelle BarnesPublisher:
ISBN: 9781938235719
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
A fierce collection of essays that tackle the question, "Who is welcome?" while also uplifting and celebrating the incredible diversity in the contemporary South, by twenty-one of the finest young writers of color living and working there. Essays in A Measure of Belonging: Writers of Color on the New American South, examine issues of sex, gender, academia, family, immigration, health, social justice, sports, music, and more. Kiese Laymon navigates the racial politics of publishing while recording his audiobook in Mississippi. Regina Bradley moves to Indiana and grapples with a landscape devoid of her Southern cultural touchstones, like Popeyes and OutKast. Aruni Kashyap apartment hunts in Athens and encounters a minefield of invasive questions. Frederick McKindra delves into the particularly Southern history of Beyonce's black majorettes. From the DMV to the college basketball court to doctors' offices, there are no shortage of places of tension in the American South. Urgent, necessary, funny, and poignant, these essays from new and established voices confront the complexities of the South's relationship with race, uncovering the particular difficulties and profound joys of being a southerner in the 21st century. With writing from Cinelle Barnes, Jaswinder Bolina, Regina Bradley, Jennifer Hope Choi, Tiana Clark, Christena Cleveland, Osayi Endolyn, M. Evelina Galang, Minda Honey, Gary Jackson, Toni Jensen, Aruni Kashyap, Latria Graham, Soniah Kamal, Frederick McKindra, Devi Laskar, Kiese Laymon, Nichole Perkins, Joy Priest, Ivelisse Rodriguez, and Natalia Sylvester.
The South
Author: Colm ToibinPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 147670449X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
A highly acclaimed novel from the author of Brooklyn and an “immensely gifted and accomplished writer” (The Washington Post), about an Irishwoman who creates a new life in post-war Spain. In 1950, Katherine Proctor leaves Ireland for Barcelona, determined to escape her family and become a painter. There she meets Miguel, an anarchist veteran of the Spanish Civil War, and begins to build a life with him. But Katherine cannot escape her past, as Michael Graves, a fellow Irish émigré in Spain, forces her to reexamine all her relationships: to her lover, her art, and the homeland she only thought she knew. The South is a novel of classic themes—of art and exile, and of the seemingly irreconcilable yearnings for love and freedom—to which Colm Tóibín brings a new, passionate sensitivity.
Living in America
Author: The Storied South
Author: William FerrisPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469607557
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
The Storied South features the voices--by turn searching and honest, coy and scathing--of twenty-six of the most luminous artists and thinkers in the American cultural firmament, from Eudora Welty, Pete Seeger, and Alice Walker to William Eggleston, Bobby Rush, and C. Vann Woodward. Masterfully drawn from one-on-one interviews conducted by renowned folklorist William Ferris over the past forty years, the book reveals how storytelling is viscerally tied to southern identity and how the work of these southern or southern-inspired creators has shaped the way Americans think and talk about the South. The Storied South offers a unique, intimate opportunity to sit at the table with these men and women and learn how they worked and how they perceived their art. The volume also features 45 of Ferris's striking photographic portraits of the speakers and a CD and a DVD of original audio and films of the interviews.
My Southern Journey
Author: Rick BraggPublisher: Liberty Street
ISBN: 0848747151
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
From celebrated New York Times bestselling author and winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Rick Bragg, comes a poignant and wryly funny collection of essays on life in the south. Keenly observed and written with his insightful and deadpan sense of humor, he explores enduring Southern truths about home, place, spirit, table, and the regions' varied geographies, including his native Alabama, Cajun country, and the Gulf Coast. Everything is explored, from regional obsessions from college football and fishing, to mayonnaise and spoonbread, to the simple beauty of a fish on the hook. Collected from over a decade of his writing, with many never-before-published essays written specifically for this edition, My Southern Journey is an entertaining and engaging read, especially for Southerners (or feel Southern at heart) and anyone who appreciates great writing.
The Natural Order of Things
Author: António Lobo AntunesPublisher: Grove Press
ISBN: 9780802138132
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
"He [the author] draws us into a labyrinth of disparate lives whose connections become clear only gradually ... a diabetic teenage girl in Lisbon, her father, an officer in the pre-revolutionary armey and a secret policeman."--Jacket.