After Southern Modernism

by Matthew Guinn

Book Overview

The literature of the contemporary South might best be understood for its discontinuity with the literary past. At odds with traditions of the Southern Renascence, southern literature of today sharply refutes the Nashville Agrarians and shares few of Faulkner's and Welty's concerns about place, community, and history.

This sweeping study of the literary South's new direction focuses on nine well established writers who, by breaking away from...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 157806273X
• ISBN13: 9781578062737
• Release Date: December 2000
• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Length: 234 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"