Writing the South

"In this major reconsideration of a regional consciousness, Richard Gray explores how generations of southerners have been engaged in "writing the South," in reinventing their place even as they describe it. Among the writers Gray discusses are William Gilmore Simms, John Esten Cooke, Mark Twain, the Nashville Agrarians, William Faulkner, and Walker Percy. For the new edition, he also examines recent developments in southern culture through the work of contemporary writers such as Lee Smith, Cormac McCarthy, and Barry Hannah"_Contracub.