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Depictions of the undead in the American South are not limited to
our modern versions, such as the vampires in True Blood and the
zombies in The Walking Dead. As Undead Souths reveals, physical
emanations of southern undeadness are legion, but undeadness also
appears in symbolic, psychological, and cultural forms, including
the social death endured by enslaved people, the Cult of the Lost
Cause that resurrected the fallen heroes of the Confederacy as
secular saints, and mourning rites revived by Native Americans
forcibly removed from the American Southeast. To capture the
manifold forms of southern haunting and horror, Undead Souths
explores a variety of media and historical periods, establishes
cultural crossings between the South and other regions within and
outside of the U.S., and employs diverse theoretical and critical
approaches. The result is an engaging and inclusive collection that
chronicles the enduring connection between southern culture and the
refusal of the dead to stay dead.
Depictions of the undead in the American South are not limited to
our modern versions, such as the vampires in True Blood and the
zombies in The Walking Dead. As Undead Souths reveals, physical
emanations of southern undeadness are legion, but undeadness also
appears in symbolic, psychological, and cultural forms, including
the social death endured by enslaved people, the Cult of the Lost
Cause that resurrected the fallen heroes of the Confederacy as
secular saints, and mourning rites revived by Native Americans
forcibly removed from the American Southeast. To capture the
manifold forms of southern haunting and horror, Undead Souths
explores a variety of media and historical periods, establishes
cultural crossings between the South and other regions within and
outside of the U.S., and employs diverse theoretical and critical
approaches. The result is an engaging and inclusive collection that
chronicles the enduring connection between southern culture and the
refusal of the dead to stay dead.
Fourteen Southern storytellers reveal their influences, methods and
daily routines, and struggles with the writing process Jan Nordby
Gretlund has been studying the literature of the American South for
some fifty years, and his outsider's perspective as a European
scholar has made him an intellectually acute witness of both the
literature and its creators. Whether it is their language and
reflexive storytelling or the craft and techniques by which writers
transform life and experience into art that fascinates Gretlund,
elements of this fiction led to his interviews with the fourteen
storytellers featured in Southern Writers Bear Witness. Gretlund
believes a good interview will always reveal something about a
writer's life and character, details that can inform a reading of
that author's fiction. The interviewer's task, according to
Gretlund, is to supply the reader with some of the sources and
experiences that inspired and shaped the fiction. Through his
conversations Gretlund also occasionally elicits the subjects'
reflections on other writers and their work to discover
affiliations, lines of influence, and divergences, and he also
emphasizes the enduring power of their work. His interviews with
Eudora Welty and Pam Durban uncover strong family and community
experiences found at the core of their fiction. Gretlund also turns
conversations to the craft of writing, writers' daily routines, and
specific problems encountered in their work, such as Clyde
Edgerton's struggle with point of view. In other exchanges he
investigates distinctive elements of a writer's work, such as
violence in Barry Hannah's fiction and religious faith in Walker
Percy's. Still other conversations, such as one with Josephine
Humphreys, touch on the pressures and opportunities of publishing
and its influence on the writer's work. Taken together, these
authors' insights on life in the South provide a fascinating window
into the creative process of storytelling as well as into the human
experiences that fuel it. A foreword by Daniel Cross Turner, author
of Southern Crossings: Poetry, Memory, and the Transcultural South
and coeditor of Undead Souths: The Gothic and Beyond in Southern
Literature and Culture and Hard Lines: Rough South Poetry, is also
included.
Daniel Cross Turner and William Wright's anthology Hard Lines:
Rough South Poetry centers on the darker side of southern
experience while presenting a remarkable array of poets from
diverse backgrounds in the American South. As tough-minded as they
are high-minded, the sixty contemporary poets and two hundred poems
anthologized in Hard Lines enhance the powerful genre of ""Grit
Lit."" The volume gathers the work of poets who have for some
decades formed the heart of southern poetry as well as that of
emerging voices who will soon become significant figures in
southern literature. These poems sting our sensesinto awareness of
a gritty world down South: hard work, hard love, hard drinking,
hard times; but they also explore the importance of the land and
rural experience, as well as race- , gender- , and class-based
conflicts. Readers will see, hear (for poetry is meant to ring in
the ears), and feel (for poetry is meant to beat in the blood);
there is plenty of raucousness in this anthology.And yet the
cultural conflicts that ignite southern wildness are often depicted
in a manner that is lyrical without becoming lugubrious, mournful
but not maudlin. Some of these poets are coming to terms with a
visibly transforming culture--a ""roughness"" in and of itself.
Indeed many of these poets are helping to change the definition of
the South. The anthology also features biographical information on
each poet in addition to further reading suggestions and scholarly
sources on contemporary poetry. Featured Poets: Betty Adcock, David
Bottoms, Kathryn Stripling Byer, James Dickey, Rodney Jones, Yusef
Komunyakaa, Ron Rash, Dave Smith , Natasha Trethewey, Charles
Wright, Fred Chappell, Kelly Cherry, Allison Adelle Hedge Coke,
Kate Daniels, Kwame Dawes, Claudia Emerson, Andrew Hudgins, T. R.
Hummer, Robert Morgan, Ellen Bryant Voigt, Dan Albergotti, Tarfia
Faizullah, Forrest Gander, Terrance Hayes, Judy Jordan, John Lane,
Michael McFee, Paul Ruffin, Steve Scafidi, Jake Adam York
Daniel Cross Turner and William Wright's anthology Hard Lines:
Rough South Poetry centers on the darker side of southern
experience while presenting a remarkable array of poets from
diverse backgrounds in the American South. As tough-minded as they
are high-minded, the sixty contemporary poets and two hundred poems
anthologized in Hard Lines enhance the powerful genre of ""Grit
Lit."" The volume gathers the work of poets who have for some
decades formed the heart of southern poetry as well as that of
emerging voices who will soon become significant figures in
southern literature. These poems sting our sensesinto awareness of
a gritty world down South: hard work, hard love, hard drinking,
hard times; but they also explore the importance of the land and
rural experience, as well as race- , gender- , and class-based
conflicts. Readers will see, hear (for poetry is meant to ring in
the ears), and feel (for poetry is meant to beat in the blood);
there is plenty of raucousness in this anthology.And yet the
cultural conflicts that ignite southern wildness are often depicted
in a manner that is lyrical without becoming lugubrious, mournful
but not maudlin. Some of these poets are coming to terms with a
visibly transforming culture--a ""roughness"" in and of itself.
Indeed many of these poets are helping to change the definition of
the South. The anthology also features biographical information on
each poet in addition to further reading suggestions and scholarly
sources on contemporary poetry. Featured Poets: Betty Adcock, David
Bottoms, Kathryn Stripling Byer, James Dickey, Rodney Jones, Yusef
Komunyakaa, Ron Rash, Dave Smith , Natasha Trethewey, Charles
Wright, Fred Chappell, Kelly Cherry, Allison Adelle Hedge Coke,
Kate Daniels, Kwame Dawes, Claudia Emerson, Andrew Hudgins, T. R.
Hummer, Robert Morgan, Ellen Bryant Voigt, Dan Albergotti, Tarfia
Faizullah, Forrest Gander, Terrance Hayes, Judy Jordan, John Lane,
Michael McFee, Paul Ruffin, Steve Scafidi, Jake Adam York
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