Tag Archives: Southern Literature
New Southerners Part 4
Lee Smith reads from and talks about two of her novels, Oral History and The Devil’s Dream, and one of her short stories, a work entitled The Bubba Stories. 696 – New Southerners Part 4
New Southerners Part 3
Tim McLaurin reads from and talks about two of his books, Woodrow’s Trumpet and Keeper of the Moon. 693 – New Southerners Part 3
New Southerners Part 2
Larry Brown reads from and talks about his novels and short stories, including Joe, Dirty Work, Facing the Music, and Big Bad Love. 687 – New Southerners Part 2
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Tagged Music, Southern Literature
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New Southerners Part 1
PEN Syndicated Fiction prizewinner Allan Gurganus, author of Olest Living Confederate Widow Tells All and White People, initiates a 13-part series of readings and conversations featuring contemporary Southern writers. 682 – New Southerners Part 1
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Southern Folk: (1) Faulkner’s “Negro”; (2) White Stereotypes
Thadious Davis speaks about her study of Faulkner’s attitudes toward blacks and whites. She is the author of Faulkner’s ‘Negro’: Art and the Southern Context. In the second segment [13:45], John Shelton Reed, the author of Southern Folk, Plain and Fancy: Native … Continue reading
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Tagged Southern Literature, Southerners, The South, William Faulkner
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Fiction and the Modern American South
Southern novelists and short story writers Lisa Alther and Lee Smith investigate questions of their genre, such as the major literary and social preoccupations of fiction in the modern American South. How do novelists use their experience, literary and personal? To what degree … Continue reading
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Tagged Feminism in Literature, Southern Literature, The South
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