This collection of reflective essays-all exploring themes of
artistic self-discovery and regional awareness-showcases 19
nationally known writers who have roots in Alabama.In "The
Remembered Gate," nationally prominent fiction writers, essayists,
and poets recall how their formative years in Alabama shaped them
as people and as writers. The essays range in tone from the pained
and sorrowful to the wistful and playful, in class from the
privileged to the poverty-stricken, in geography from the rural to
the urban, and in time from the first years of the 20th century to
the height of the Civil Rights era and beyond.
In all the essays we see how the individual artists came to
understand something central about themselves and their art from a
changing Alabama landscape. Whether from the perspective of C. Eric
Lincoln, beaten for his presumption as a young black man asking for
pay for his labors, or of Judith Hillman Paterson, floundering in
her unresolved relationship with her troubled family, these
personal renderings are intensely realized visions of a writer's
sense of being a writer and a human being. Robert Inman tells of
exploring his grandmother's attic, and how the artifacts he found
there fired his literary imagination. William Cobb profiles the
lasting influence of the town bully, the diabolical Cletus Hickey.
And in "Growing up in Alabama: A Meal in Four Courses, Beginning
with Dessert," Charles Gaines chronicles his upbringing through the
metaphor of southern cooking.
What emerges overall is a complex, richly textured portrait of
men and women struggling with, and within, Alabama's economic and
cultural evolution to become major voices of our time.
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