Tag Archives: The South
Dixie Rising
New York Times Atlanta correspondent Peter Applebome reads from and discusses his book Dixie Rising: How the South Is Shaping American Values, Politics and Culture. He addresses the many attempts at defining the South and Southerners and discusses race and labor … Continue reading
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
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
Politics in the American South, Part 1 of 2
Dewey Grantham, William Havard, George Tindall, and Edwin Yoder talk about the origins and shape of politics in the American South, saying that the region provides rich sources for scholarship and social criticism. In the first of two discussions for Soundings, … Continue reading
Modern Southern Literature
Novelist Guy Owen describes the process of writing and changing real life into fiction by taking the germ of a thought and “running it through the Olympics” of his imagination. He challenges the notion that southern literature is in decline, … Continue reading