Title	The Cambridge companion to the literature of the American South / edited by Sharon Monteith
Imprint	Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013
Descript	xiii, 242 pages ; 24 cm

"This Companion maps the dynamic literary landscape of the American South. From pre- and post-Civil War literature to modernist and civil rights fictions, and writing by immigrants in the 'global' South of the late-twentieth and twenty-first centuries, these newly commissioned essays from leading scholars explore the region's established and emergent literary traditions. Touching on poetry and song, drama and screenwriting, key figures such as William Faulkner and Eurdora Welty, and iconic texts such as Gone with the Wind, chapters investigate how issues of class, poverty, sexuality, and regional identity have textured Southern writing across generations. The volume's rich contextual approach highlights patterns and connections between writers while offering insight into the development of Southern literary criticism, making this Companion a valuable guide for students and teachers of American literature, American studies, and the history of storytelling in America"-- Provided by publisher

Region, genre, and the nineteenth-century south -- Slave narratives and neo-slave narratives -- Literature and the civil war -- Literature and reconstruction -- Southern verse in poetry and song -- Southern modernists and modernity -- Poverty and progress -- The southern renaissance and the faulknerian south -- Southern women writers and their influence -- Hollywood dreaming: southern writers and the movies -- Civil rights fiction -- Southern drama -- Queering the region -- Immigrant writers: transnational stories of a Worlded south

1. American literature -- Southern States -- History and criticism
2. Authors
3. American -- Homes and haunts -- Southern States
4. Southern States -- In literature
5. Southern States -- Intellectual life

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