Contributions by Destiny O. Birdsong, Jean W. Cash, Kevin Catalano,
Amanda Dean Freeman, David Gates, Richard Gaughran, Rebecca Godwin,
Joan Wylie Hall, Dixon Hearne, Phillip Howerton, Emily D.
Langhorne, Shawn E. Miller, Melody Pritchard, Nick Ripatrazone, Bes
Stark Spangler, Scott Hamilton Suter, Melanie Benson Taylor, Jay
Varner, and Scott D. Yarbrough Twenty-First-Century Southern
Writers: New Voices, New Perspectives, an anthology of critical
essays, introduces a new group of fiction writers from the American
South. These fresh voices, like their twentieth-century
predecessors, examine what it means to be a southerner in the
modern world. These writers' works cover wide-ranging subjects and
themes: the history of the region, the continued problems of the
working-class South, the racial divisions that have continued, the
violence of the modern world, and the difficulties of establishing
a spiritual identity in a modern context. The approaches and styles
vary from writer to writer, with realistic, place-centered
description as the foundation of many of their works. They have
also created new perspectives regarding point of view, and some
have moved toward the inclusion of ""magic realism"" and even
science fiction in their work. The nineteen essays in
Twenty-First-Century Southern Writers feature a handful of fiction
writers who are already well known, such as National Book
Award-winner Jesmyn Ward, Tayari Jones, Michael Farris Smith, and
Inman Majors. Others deserve greater recognition, and, in many
cases, works in this anthology will be the first pieces of analysis
dedicated to writers and their work. Twenty-First-Century Southern
Writers aims to alert scholars of southern literature, as well as
the reading public, to an exciting and varied group of writers,
while laying a foundation for future examination of these works.
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