The world is our home : society and culture in contemporary Southern writing

This work focuses on contemporary southern writers who have explicitly addressed social and cultural issues in their fiction and drama, including: Dorothy Allison; Horton Foote; Ernest J. Gaines; Jill McCorkle; Walker Percy; and Lee Smith.

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The title of this volume comes from James Agee, whose emphasis on social and cultural concerns in Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (1941) is reflected in this volume's 16 essays, though most contributors discuss more recent eras than Agee's Depression South. Susan Goodman's analysis of William Styron and Sherley Ann Williams's novels about slave uprisings is an important exception, and Goodman presents the "competing histories" as imaginative contemporary re-creations. Other essays cover a diverse range of issues--civil rights in Alice Walker (by Keith Byerman), class and gender in Dorothy Allison (Moira P. Baker), death row in Ernest Gaines (John Lowe), survivor guilt in Kaye Gibbons (Linda Watts), the transition from rural to urban Louisiana in James Lee Burke (Frank W. Shelton), southern religious experience in Horton Foote (Gerald C. Wood), the contemporary, nonviolent West in Frederick Barthelme (Robert H. Brinkmeyer). Other essayists include Jeffrey Folks, Suzanne W. Jones, Gary M. Ciuba, James Grove, Julius Raper, Barbara Bennett, Linda J. Byrd, and Joanna Price. The editors' introduction succinctly summarizes a quarter-century of literary scholarship with a social focus. Strongly recommended for all academic libraries, lower-division undergraduate level and above. J. W. Hall; University of Mississippi

The World Is Our Home: An Introduction	p. 1
Competing Histories: William Styron's The Confessions of Nat Turner and Sherley Ann Williams's Dessa Rose	p. 12
New Narratives of Southern Manhood: Race, Masculinity, and Closure in Ernest Gaines's Fiction	p. 29
The Snake and the Rosary: Violence and the Culture of Piety in Sheila Bosworth's Slow Poison	p. 53
"Because God's Eye Never Closes": The Problem of Evil in Jayne Anne Phillips's Shelter	p. 73
Gender and Justice: Alice Walker and the Sexual Politics of Civil Rights	p. 93
"Trouble" in Muskhogean County: The Social History of a Southern Community in the Fiction of Raymond Andrews	p. 107
"The Politics of They": Dorothy Allison's Bastard Out of Carolina as Critique of Class, Gender, and Sexual Ideologies	p. 117
Transcendence in the House of the Dead: The Subversion Gaze of A Lesson Before Dying	p. 142
Walker Percy's Lancelot Lamar: Defending the Hollow Core	p. 163
Regeneration Through Nonviolence: Frederick Barthelme and the West	p. 176
Making Peace with the (M)other	p. 186
Toward Healing the Split: Lee Smith's Fancy Strut and Black Mountain Breakdown	p. 201
Stories Told by Their Survivors (and Other Sins of Memory): Survivor Guilt in Kaye Gibbons's Ellen Foster	p. 220
James Lee Burke's Dave Robicheaux Novels	p. 232
The Physical Hunger for the Spiritual: Southern Religious Experience in the Plays of Horton Foote	p. 244
Richard Ford: The Postmodern Exile and the Vanishing South	p. 259
Contributors	p. 273
Index	p. 275

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