Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: Introduction: mapping the figurative South Sharon Monteith; 1. Region, genre, and the nineteenth-century South Kathryn B. McKee; 2. Slave narratives and neo-slave narratives Judie Newman; 3. Literature and the Civil War Will Kaufman; 4. Literature and Reconstruction Scott Romine; 5. Southern verse in poetry and song Ernest Suarez; 6. Southern modernists and modernity David A. Davis; 7. Poverty and progress Sarah Robertson; 8. The southern renaissance and the Faulknerian South John T. Matthews; 9. Southern women writers and their influence Pearl McHaney; 10. Hollywood dreaming: southern writers and the movies Sarah Gleeson-White; 11. Civil rights fiction Sharon Monteith; 12. Southern drama Gary Richards; 13. Queering the South Michael Bibler; 14. Immigrant writers: transnational stories of a 'worlded' South Nahem Yousaf.