Unraveling and Defining Southern Literature

A weather-beaten sharecropper shack sits underneath storm clouds next to a field of wheat. The caption reads: Unraveling and Defining Southern Literature.

“As the South goes, so goes the nation… Stories set in the South should be recognized not as stories about a particular place and time, but as microcosms of the great crucible in which all Americans now labor in our ongoing struggle over the future of our country’s divided soul.” -Ed Tarkington Southern literature is […]