A Modern southern reader : major stories, drama, poetry, essays, interviews, and reminiscences from the twentieth-century South

A Modern southern reader : major stories, drama, poetry, essays, interviews, and reminiscences from the twentieth-century South /

Major stories, drama, poetry, essays, interviews, and reminiscences from the 20th century South.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Forkner, Ben, Samway, Patrick H.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Atlanta, Ga. : Peachtree Publishers, ©1986.
Subjects:
Since 1865
Geschichte 1900-1985.
American literature > Southern States.
American literature > 20th century.
Authors, American > Homes and haunts > Southern States.
American literature.
Authors, American > Homes and haunts.
Intellectual life.
Literature.
Literatur
Anthologie.
Southern States > Literary collections.
Southern States > Intellectual life > 1865-
Southern States > In literature.
Southern States.
USA > Südstaaten.
Interviews.
Biographies.
Literary collections.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Children on their birthdays / Truman Capote
  • Barn burning / William Faulkner
  • Just like a tree / Ernest J. Gaines
  • Old red / Caroline Gordon
  • All the old harkening faces at the rail / Barry Hannah
  • The gilded six-bits / Zora Neale Hurston
  • The fugitives / Madison Jones
  • Jericho, Jericho, Jericho / Andrew Lytle
  • The life you save may be your own / Flannery O'Connor
  • The jilting of Granny Weatherall / Katherine Anne Porter
  • Uncle Grant / Reynolds Price
  • First dark / Elizabeth Spencer
  • In the Miro District / Peter Taylor
  • A worn path / Eudora Welty
  • Chickamauga / Thomas Wolfe
  • The man who was almost a man / RIchard Wright
  • Introduction
  • Nelly Myers ; Coon song / A.R. Ammons
  • My grandfather's funeral ; Tobacco men ; Drinking music / James Applewhite
  • Where ; Work song ; The slip ; In rain / Wendell Berry
  • Shooting rats at the Bibb County dump ; Under the boathouse ; Under the vulture-tree / David Bottoms
  • The autumn bleat of the weathervane trombone ; Awakening to music ; Here ; Humility / Fred Chappell
  • Joe Clisby's song ; Lee in the mountains / Donald Davidson
  • A dog sleeping on my feet ; Cherrylog Road ; False youth : two seasons (winter) / James Dickey
  • A girl in a library / Randall Jarrell
  • Women in love ; Tales from a family album ; The grandfathers / Donald Justice
  • The idea of ancestry / Etheridge Knight
  • Southern vortex ; The exclusion principle ; Pity / William Mills
  • Bells for John Whiteside's daughter ; THe equilibrists ; Antique harvesters ; Vision for Sweetwater ; Two in August / John Crowe Ransom
  • It all comes together outside the restroom in Hogansville ; Grabbling in Yokna Bottom ; No man's good bull / James Seay
  • The tire hangs in the yard ; The colors of our age : pink and black / Dave Smith
  • The soup jar ; Mining in Killdeer Alley ; No yellow jackets on the mountain / Dabney Stuart
  • Ode to the Confederate dead ; The oath ; The swimmers / Allen Tate
  • Burial / Alice Walker
  • Evening hawk ; English cocker : old and blind ; The corner of the eye ; The place ; Old photograph of the future ; Muted music ; Covered bridge ; Old-time Childhhood in Kentucky ; Mortal limit ; Three darknessess / Robert Penn Warren
  • About a year after he got married he would sit alone in an abandoned shack in a cotton field enjoying himself ; He records a little song for a smoking girl ; A local man doesn't like the music / James Whitehead
  • A poem for Emily ; After the revolution for Jesus the associate professor prepares his final remarks / Miller Williams
  • Northhanger Ridge ; Dead color / Charles Wright
  • Introduction
  • THe member of the wedding / Carson McCullers
  • The glass menagerie / Tennessee Williams
  • Introduction
  • from The mind of the South / W.J. Cash
  • Mississippi / William Faulkner
  • The Catholic novelist in the Protestant South / Flannery O'Connor
  • This quiet dust / William Styron
  • A Southern mode of the imagination / Allen Tate
  • Place in fiction / Eudora Welty
  • The search for Southern identity / C. Vann Woodward
  • from A death in the family / James Agee
  • from You have seen their faces / Erskine Caldwell
  • from A childhood : the biography of a place / Harry Crews
  • from Mules and men and Dust tracks on a road : an autobiography / Zora Neale Hurston
  • Always stand in against the curve / Willie Morris
  • Introduction to Lanterns on the levee / Walker Percy
  • from All God's dangers : the life of Nate Shaw / Theodore Rosengarten
  • The boll weevil, the iron horse, and the end of the line : thoughts on the South / Louis D. Rubin, Jr.
  • Blood-burning moon / Jean Toomer
  • Ida M'Toy / Eudora Welty
  • William Faulkner (with Jean Stein)
  • Shelby Foote (with John Griffin Jones)
  • Walker Percy, Questions they never asked me so he asked them himself.

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