Since the end of World War II, the South has experienced a greater
awareness of growth and of its accompanying tensions than other
regions of the United States. The rapid change that climaxed with
the war in Vietnam, the Cold War, civil rights demonstrations, and
Watergate has forced the traditional South to come to terms with
social upheaval. As the essays collected in Southern Writers at
Century's End point out, southern writing: since 1975 reflects the
confusion and violence that have characterized
late-twentieth-century public culture. These essays consider the
work of twenty-one of the foremost southern writers whose most
important fiction has appeared in the last quarter of this century.
As the region's contemporary writers have begun to gain a wide
audience, critics have begun to distinguish what Hugh Holman has
called "the fresh, the vital, and the new" in southern literary
culture. Southern Writers at Century's End is the first volume to
take an extensive look at the current generation of southern
writers. Authors considered include: James Lee Burke, Fred
Chappell, Robert Drake, Andre Dubus, Clyde Edgerton, Richard Ford,
Kaye Gibbons, John Grisham, Barry Hannah, Mary Hood, Josephine
Humphreys, Randall Kenan, Richard Marius, Bobbie Ann Mason, Cormac
McCarthy, Tim McLaurin, T.R. Pearson, Lee Smith, Anne Tyle,r Alice
Walker, and James Wilcox.
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