Southern Aberrations: Writers of the American South and the Problems of Regionalism

by Richard J. Gray

Book Overview

In this major reassessment of the American South and its literature, Richard Gray explores the idea of regionalism by focusing on those writers whose relationship with the South has been particularly problematical. Asking just what it means to belong to a place, a region--and, more specifically, what it implies for certain Americans to call themselves Southerners--he analyzes conflicting notions of the South that have evolved over the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807126020
• ISBN13: 9780807126028
• Release Date: May 2000
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 535 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.0"