Acknowledgments
Notes on Contributors
List of Plates
Part I Introduction
1 Writing Southern Cultures Richard Gray (University of Essex)
Part II Themes and Issues
2 The First Southerners Jamestown's Colonists as Exemplary Figures and Mary C. Fuller (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
3 Slave Narratives Jerry Phillips (University of Connecticut)
4 Plantation Fiction John M. Grammer (University of the South, in Sewanee)
5 The Slavery Debate Susan-Mary Grant (University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne)
6 Southern Writers and the Civil War Susan-Mary Grant (University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne)
7 Visualizing the Poor White Stuart Kidd (University of Reading)
8 Southern Appalachia Linda Tate (Shepherd College)
9 The Southern Literary Renaissance Robert J. Brinkmeyer, Jr. (the University of Arkansas)
10 The Native-American South Mick Gidley (University of Leeds) and Ben Gidley (Goldsmiths College, University of London)
11 Southern Music John White (University of Hull)
12 Country Music Barbara Ching (University of Memphis)
13 The Civil Rights Debate Richard H. King (Nottingham University)
14 Southern Religion(s) Charles Reagan Wilson (University of Mississippi)
15 African-American Fiction and Poetry R. J. Ellis (Nottingham Trent University)
16 Southern Drama Mark Zelinsky (Saint Joseph College) and Amy Cuomo (State University of West Georgia)
17 Sports in the South Diane Roberts (University of Alabama)
18 The South Through Other Eyes Helen Taylor (University of Exeter)
19 The South in Popular Culture Allison Graham (University of Memphis)
Part III Individuals and Movements
20 Edgar Allan Poe Henry Claridge (University of Kent)
21 Southwestern Humor John M. Grammar (University of the South, in Sewanee)
22 Mark Twain Peter Stoneley (Queen's University, Belfast)
23 Ellen Glasgow Julius Rowan Raper (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
24 Fugitives and Agrarians Andrew Hook (University of Glasgow)
25 William Faulkner Richard Godden (University of Sussex)
26 Literature of the African-American Great Migration Kate Fullbrook (deceased)
27 Zora Neale Hurston Will Brantley (Middle Tennessee State University)
28 Flannery O'Connor Susan Castillo (King's College, London)
29 Eudora Welty Jan Nordby Gretlund (University of Southern Denmark)
30 Oral Culture and Southern Fiction Jill Terry (University College Worcester)
31 Recent and Contemporary Women Writers in the South Sharon Monteith (Nottingham University)
32 The South in Contemporary African-American Fiction A. Robert Lee (Nihon University, Tokyo)
33 Writing in the South Now Matthew Guinn (University of Alabama at Birmingham)
Part IV Afterword
34 Searching for Southern Identity James C. Cobb (University of Georgia)
Index