| Description |
xii, 323 pages : portraits ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Southern quarterly series
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Southern quarterly series.
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| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 307-319. |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
Interviews with seven contemporary writers / Laurie L. Brown -- The fiction of Anne Tyler / Doris Betts -- Alice Walker's celebration of self in southern generations / Thadious M. Davis -- Gail Goodwin and the ideal of southern womanhood / Carolyn Rhodes -- Eating the moment absolutely up: The fiction of Beverly Lowry / Merrill Maguire Skaggs -- Shirley Ann Grau and the short story / Mary Rohrberger -- Lisa Alther: The irony of return? / Mary Anne Ferguson -- Ellen Douglas: Moralist and realist / Carol S. Manning -- Doris Bett's Nancy Finch: A heroine for the 1980s / Dorothy M. Scura -- Mermaids, angels and free women: The heroines of Elizabeth Spencer's fiction / Peggy Whitman Prenshaw -- Mary Lee Settle's connections: Class and clothes in the Beulah Quintet / Nancy Carol Joyner -- The androgynous, bi-racial vision of Berry Morgan / Margaret Jones Bolsterli -- Rita Mae Brown: Feminist theorist and southern novelist / Martha Chew -- Youth in Toni Cade Bambara's Gorilla, my love / Nancy D. Hargrove -- The miracle of realism: The bid for self-knoeledge in the fiction of Ellen Gilchrist / Jeanie Thompson and Anita Miller Garner -- The world of Lee Smith / Anne Goodwyn Jones -- The career of Joan Williams: Problems in assessment / Judith Bryant Wittenberg -- Stopping places: Bobbie Ann Mason's short stories / Maureen Ryan -- Why there are no southern writers / Daphne Athas. |
| Subject |
American fiction -- Southern States -- History and criticism.
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American fiction. |
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Southern States. |
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American fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
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American fiction -- Women authors. |
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American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Southern States -- In literature.
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| Added Author |
Prenshaw, Peggy Whitman.
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| ISBN |
0878052224 |
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