Southern Selves: From Mark Twain and Eudora Welty to Maya Angelou and Kaye Gibbons a Collection of Autobiographical Writing

ISBN-13: 9780679781035 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 400 str.

James H. Watkins

Opis

The memoirist seek to capture not just a self but an entire world, and in this marvelous anthology thirty-one of the South's finest writers--writers like Kaye Gibbons and Reynolds Price, Eudora Welty and Harry Crews, Richard Wright and Dorothy Allison--make their intensely personal contributions to a vibrant collective picture of southern life.
In the hands of these superb artists, the South's rich tradition of storytelling is brilliantly revealed. Whether slave or master, intellectual or -redneck, - each voice in this moving and unforgettable collection is proof that southern literature richly deserves its reputation for irreverent humor, exquisite language, a feeling for place, and an undying, often heartbreaking sense of the past.