Remapping Southern Literature: Contemporary Southern Writers and the West

157 Pages·2000·5.311 MB·English

by  Robert Brinkmeyer Jr.

Remapping Southern Literature
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Remapping Southern Literature
CONTEMPORARY SOUTHERN WRITERS
AND THE WEST
Robert H. Brinkmeyer Jr.
MERCER UNIVERSITY
LAMAR MEMORIAL LECTURES NO. 42
The University of Georgia Press
Athens and London
University of Georgia Press paperbaek edition, 2007
© 2000 by the University of Georgia Press
Prefaee to the Paperbaek Kdition © 2007 by
the University of Georgia Press
Athens, Georgia 30602
All rights reserved
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Printed digitally in the United States of America
The Library of Gongress has cataloged the hardcover
edition of this book as follows:
Library of Gongress Gataloging-in-Publication Data
Brinkmeyer, Robert H.
Remapping southern literature: contemporary Southern
writers and the West / Robert H. Brinkmeyer, Jr.
xvii, 130 p. 23 cm. — (Mercer University Lamar memorial
lectures; no. 42)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-8203-2189-3 (alk. paper)
1. American literature — Southern States — History7 and criticism.
2. American literature — West (U.S.) — History and criticism.
3. Regionalism in literature. 4. Southern States — Intellectual
life — 1865-. 5- Southern States — In literature. 6. West
(U.S.) — In literature. I. Title. II. Scries.
PS26i .6745 2000
810.9*97521 — dc2i 99-043731
ISBN-13: 978-0-8203-2997-0 (pbk.)
ISBN-IO: 0-8203-2997-5 (pbk.)
British Library Gataloging-in-Publication Data available
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ISBN for This digital edition: 97B-0-S203- 3701-2
for Peter Brown,
who exemplifies "regeneration through community"
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For the artist to be unwilling to move, mentally or
spiritually or physically, out of the familiar is a sign
that spiritual timidity or poverty or decay has come
upon him; for what is familiar will then have turned
into all that is tyrannical.
EUDORA WELTY, "Place in Fiction"
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Contents
List of Abbreviations xi
Foreword xiii
Preface to the Paperback Edition xv
Preface to the First Edition xxi
CHAPTER ONE
Embracing Place i
CHAPTER TWO
Bleeding Westward 28
CHAPTER THREE
Regeneration through Community 66
Epilogue 107
Notes 115
Index 127
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