An Overview Genres of Southern Literature by Genre
Lucinda MacKethan, North Carolina State University
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Recommended Resources For Further Reading in Southern
Literature by Genre:
Print Books and Articles
Andrews, William L. To Tell a Free Story: The First
Century of Afro-American Autobiography, 1760-1865. Urbana: University
of Illinois Press, 1986.
Brinkmeyer, Robert H. Remapping Southern Literature: Contemporary
Southern Writers and the West. Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia
Press, 2000.
Fetterley, Judith, and Marjorie Pryse. Writing Out of Place: Regionalism,
Women, and American Literary Culture. Urbana: University of Illinois
Press, 2003.
Flora, Joseph P. P., and Lucinda H. MacKethan, eds. The Companion to
Southern Literature. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press,
2002.
Gray, Richard. Southern Aberrations: Writers of the American South
and the Problems of Regionalism. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University
Press, 2000.
Guinn, Matthew. After Southern Modernism: Fiction of the Contemporary
South. Jackson: University of Mississippi Press, 2000.
Heilman, Robert. “The Southern Temper.” In Rubin and Jacobs, Southern
Renascence.
Holman, C. Hugh. “No More Monoliths, Please: Continuities in the Multi-Souths.”
Southern Literature in Transition: Heritage and Promise, ed. Philip
Castille and William Osborne. Memphis: Memphis State University Press, 1983.
Inness, Sherrie A., and Diana Royer. Breaking Boundaries: New Perspectives
on Women's Regional Writing. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press,
1997.
Jones, Anne Goodwyn, and Susan V. Donaldson. Haunted
Bodies: Gender and Southern Texts. Charlottesville: University of
Virginia Press, 1997.
Jones, Suzanne W., and Sharon Monteith. South to a New Place: Region,
Literature, Culture. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press,
2002.
Kreyling, Michael. Inventing Southern Literature. Jackson: University
Press of Mississippi, 1998.
MacKethan, Lucinda H. The Dream of Arcady: Place and Time in Southern
Literature. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1980.
Perry, Carolyn, and Mary Louise Weaks, eds. The History of Southern
Women's Literature. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press,
2002.
Rubin, Louis D., Jr., and Robert D. Jacobs, Jr. Southern Renascence:
The Literature of the Modern South. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University
Press, 1953.
Rubin, Louis D., Jr., et al., eds. The History of Southern Literature.
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1985.
Yaeger, Patricia. Dirt and Desire: Reconstructing Southern Women's
Writing, 1930-1990. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000.
Online Resources in Southern Literature
http://docsouth.unc.edu/
Online Library of Southern Literature and other hypertext links for southern literature and history
http://www.olemiss.edu/depts/south/
Center for the Study of Southern Culture
http://www.southernscribe.com/resources/resources.htm
Resources for Southern Writers
http://writing2.richmond.edu/spirit/index.html
Sources on the Old Southwest
http://www.missq.msstate.edu/sssl/
Bibliography: SSSL's Checklist of Scholarship on Southern Literature
General Resources in American Literature
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/hypertex.html
hypertext links for American literature
http://guweb2.gonzaga.edu/faculty/campbell/enl311/aufram.html
extensive biographical and online text lists for
U.S. American authors
http://www.bartleby.com/
Bartleby books online,
U.S. American literary texts
http://voices.cla.umn.edu/newsite/index.htm
Voices from the Gaps: Women Writers of Color
http://www.unl.edu/legacy/19cwww/books/links.html
19th Century American Women Writers on the Web
http://www.geocities.com/Wellesley/7327/modernism.html
American Woman Writers 1890-1939
Information on Southern Writers by State
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