Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-198) and index.
Contents
Arcady revisited: the poor South of Harry Crews and Dorothy Allison -- The new naturalism of Larry Brown -- Mediation, interpolation: Bobbie Ann Mason and Kaye Gibbons -- Atavism and the exploded metanarrative: Cormac McCarthy's journey to mythoclasm -- Into the suburbs: Richard Ford's sportswriter as postsouthern expatriate -- Signifyin(g) in the South: Randall Kenan -- Barry Hannah and the "open field" of southern history.