The extraordinary flowering of Southern literary talent in the
early twentieth century, the Southern Literary Renascence, has
continued virtually unabated, showing increasing vitality in recent
decades. These newer fiction writers, poets, dramatists, and
journalists reflect in their work the changing social conditions of
the South while also presenting traditional Southern values and
qualities. Their astonishing output constitutes a phenomenon worthy
of being called a Second Southern Literary Renascence. Joseph M.
Flora and Robert Bain, editors of the acclaimed Fifty Southern
Writers before 1900 and Fifty Southern Writers after 1900, found
that they could only begin to suggest the continuing abundance and
significance of Southern writing in the latter volume. Retaining
the same format, they have developed two new volumes for the
contemporary period. The first, focusing on fiction, comprises
forty-nine talented novelists, including such popular figures as
Pat Conroy, Gail Godwin, T. R. Pearson, Anne Tyler, and Alice
Walker. The companion volume, (Contemporary Poets, Dramatists,
Essayists, and Novelists: A Bio-Bibliographical Sourcebook
forthcoming from Greenwood Press) will cover primarily poets,
playwrights, and essayists as well as fiction writers who have made
major contributions to these other genres. The essays, written by
scholars and critics, present in each case a biographical sketch,
an analysis of the writer's style and major themes, an assessment
of reviews and scholarship, a chronological list of works, and a
bibliography of selected criticism. Considered individually and
comparatively and with attention to the editors' introductory
essay, these bio-bibliographical studiesclearly demonstrate the
state and strength of Southern letters.
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