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Rough South, Rural South - Region and Class in Recent Southern Literature (Paperback)
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Rough South, Rural South - Region and Class in Recent Southern Literature (Paperback)
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Essays in Rough South, Rural South describe and discuss the work of
southern writers who began their careers in the late twentieth and
early twenty-first centuries. They fall into two categories. Some,
born into the working class, strove to become writers and learned
without benefit of higher education, such writers as Larry Brown
and William Gay. Others came from lower- or middle-class
backgrounds and became writers through practice and education:
Dorothy Allison, Tom Franklin, Tim Gautreaux, Clyde Edgerton, Kaye
Gibbons, Silas House, Jill McCorkle, Chris Offutt, Ron Rash, Lee
Smith, Brad Watson, Daniel Woodrell, and Steve Yarbrough. Their
twenty-first-century colleagues are Wiley Cash, Peter Farris, Skip
Horack, Michael Farris Smith, Barb Johnson, and Jesmyn Ward. In his
seminal article, Erik Bledsoe distinguishes Rough South writers
from such writers as William Faulkner and Erskine Caldwell. Younger
writers who followed Harry Crews were born into and write about the
Rough South. These writers undercut stereotypes, forcing readers to
see the working poor differently. The next pieces begin with those
on Crews and Cormac McCarthy, major influences on an entire
generation. Later essays address members of both groups - the
self-educated and the college-educated. Both groups share a clear
understanding of the value of working-class southerners. Nearly all
of the writers hold a reverence for the South's landscape and its
inhabitants as well as an affinity for realistic depictions of
setting and characters.
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