Women Writers of the Contemporary South edited by Peggy Whitman
Prenshaw essays about Lisa Alther, Toni Cade Bambara, Doris Betts,
Rita Mae Brown, Ellen Douglas, Ellen Gilchrist, Gail Godwin,
Shirley Ann Grau, Beverly Lowry, Bobbie Ann Mason, Berry Morgan,
Mary Lee Settle, Lee Smith, Elizabeth Spencer, Anne Tyler, Alice
Walker, and Joan Williams The essays in this collection are
evidence that the most notable fiction writers of the contemporary
South very well may be women writers. As a part of the new
generation following the Southern Renaissance-writers not
restricted by regionalism-the seventeen featured in this book are
women whose first novels or collections of short stories were
published after 1945. One essay about each, written by a scholar in
the field, gives insight into her southern identity and evaluates
her fiction. Included is a checklist of fiction and selected
criticism. In a provocative concluding essay, Why There Are No
Southern Writers, novelist Daphne Althas traces changes of style
and subjects in recent southern fiction. The writers included
differ most noticeably from earlier twentieth-century writers in
their depiction of a southern region more typically suburban than
rural and in their portrayal of characters more mobile and
transient than rooted in the southern past. In fact, in a number of
their works the action is set outside the South, although with few
exceptions the central characters are recognizably southern. Among
these writers are prize winners (Pulitzers, O. Henrys) whose
literary reputations are already firmly established, as well as
newly emerging talents. Each of them has a striking originality. As
a group, their works represent a significant segment of
contemporary American fiction. Women Writers of the Contemporary
South offers insights into important new writing from one of
literary America's most productive regions. Peggy Whitman Prenshaw
is Humanities Scholar in Residence at Millsaps College.
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