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  title info:
    title: Rough South, rural South
    sub title: region and class in recent southern literature
  name:
    name part: Cash, Jean W.
    name part: 1938-
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Perry, Keith Ronald
    name part: 1967-
    role:
      role term: editor.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: msu
    date issued: 2016
    copyright date: 2016
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xiv, 250 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  abstract: Essays in Rough South, Rural South describe and discuss the work of southern writers who began their careers in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. They fall into two categories. Some, born into the working class, strove to become writers and learned without benefit of higher education, such writers as Larry Brown and William Gay. Others came from lower- or middle-class backgrounds and became writers through practice and education, including Dorothy Allison, Tom Franklin, Tim Gautreaux, Clyde Edgerton, Kaye Gibbons, Silas House, Jill McCorkle, Chris Offutt, Ron Rash, Lee Smith, Brad Watson, Daniel Woodrell and Steve Yarbrough. Their twenty-first-century colleagues are Wiley Cash, Peter Farris, Skip Horack, Michael Farris Smith, Barb Johnson and Jesmyn Ward. In his seminal article, Erik Bledsoe distinguishes Rough South writers from such writers as William Faulkner and Erskine Caldwell. Younger writers who followed Harry Crews were born into and write about the Rough South. These writers undercut stereotypes, forcing readers to see the working poor differently. The next pieces begin with those on Crews and Cormac McCarthy, major influences on an entire generation. Later essays address members of both groups, the self-educated and the college-educated. Both groups share a clear understanding of the value of working-class southerners. Nearly all of the writers hold a reverence for the South's landscape and its inhabitants as well as an affinity for realistic depictions of setting and characters.
  table of contents: Introduction: rough South, rural South / Jean W. Cash -- "Rough South": beginnings / Gary Hawkins -- From "The rise of southern redneck and white trash writers" / Erik Bledsoe -- Harry Crews: progenitor / David K. Jeffrey -- Elevated above the real: the poor white southerner in Cormac McCarthy's early novels / Marcus Hamilton -- Tim McLaurin: universality from rural North Carolina / bes Stark Spangler -- Larry Brown: a firefighter finds his voice / Joe Samuel Starnes -- Dorothy Allison: revising the "white trash" narrative / Emily Langhorne -- A world almost rotten: the fiction of William Gay / William Giraldi -- "Recover the paths": salvage in Tom Franklin's fiction / Joan Wylie Hall -- The rough South of Ron Rash / Thomas Ærvold Bjerre -- "Everything worth doing hurts like Hell": the rough South of Tim Gautreaux / L. Lamar Nisly -- Education is everything: Chris Offutt's eastern Kentucky / Peter Farris -- Daniel Woodrell, Ozarker / Shawn E. Miller -- Kaye Gibbons: tough women in a rough South / Rebecca Godwin -- Lee Smith: a diamond from the rough / Linda Byrd Cook -- A country for old men: the South of Clyde Edgerton's early novels / Robert Donahoo -- Jill McCorkle: the rough South from one remove / Barbara Bennett -- "The spiritual energy of the trees": nature, place, and religion in Silas House's Crow County trilogy / Scott Hamilton Suter -- Steve Yarbrough: transplanted Mississippian / Thomas E. Dasher -- Once a paradise: Brad Watson's southern afterlife / Wade Newhouse -- Twenty-first-century writers: the rural southern tradition continues / Jean W. Cash -- Trash or treasure? Images of the hardscrabble South in twenty-first-century film / Richard Gaughran -- Notes on contributors -- Photograph credits -- Index.
  note: edited by Jean W. Cash and Keith Perry.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-usu--
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    topic: American literature
    geographic: Southern States
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: Authors, American
    geographic: Southern States
    topic: History
  subject:
    geographic: Southern States
    topic: In literature
  subject:
    topic: Working class in literature
  subject:
    geographic: Southern States
    topic: Intellectual life
  subject:
    topic: Literature and society
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: American literature
    temporal: 20th century
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: American literature
    temporal: 21st century
    topic: History and criticism
  classification: PS261 .R58 2016
  classification: 810.9/975
  identifier: 9781496802330
  identifier: 1496802330
  identifier: 9781496804969
  identifier: 2015020367
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 150707
    record change date: 20170928112526.0
    record identifier: in00003616597