Southern Renaissance: The Cultural Awakening of the American South, 1930-1955

by Lowell King and Richard H. King

Book Overview

Examining the interaction between literature and history, King shows how such writers as William Faulkner, James Agee, W. J. Cash, Allen Tate, and C. Vann Woodward confronted Southern traditions rooted in the plantation culture, the Civil War, Reconstruction and racial reaction and raised them to a historical awareness. In the process some of these figures rejected while others reaffirmed the essence of what King calls the "Southern family romance."...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195030435
• ISBN13: 9780195030433
• Release Date: February 1982
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 364 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.6" x 8.6"