Growing Up in the South (Signet Classics) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0451528735 ISBN 13: 9780451528735

Publisher: Signet, 2003

Synopsis

Something about the South has inspired the imaginations of an extraordinary number of America’s best storytellers—and greatest writers. That quality may be a rich, unequivocal sense of place, a living connection with the past, or the contradictions and passions that endow this region with awesome beauty and equally awesome tragedy. The stories in this superb collection of modern Southern writing are about childhood, adolescence, and young adulthood—in other words, about growing up in the South. Flannery O’Connor’s “Everything That Rises Must Converge,” set in a South that remains segregated even after segregation is declared illegal, is the story of a white college student who chastises his mother for her prejudice against blacks. But black, white, aristocrat, or sharecropper, each of these 23 authors is unmistakably Southern—and their writing is indisputably wonderful.

About this title

About the Author:

Suzanne W. Jones is a professor of American Literature and Women’s Studies at the University of Richmond. The author of a number of essays about southern literature, she is also the editor of another collection of stories, Crossing the Color Line: Readings in Black and White, and two collections of essays, South to a New Place (with Sharon Monteith) and Writing the Woman Artist.

Review:

"An engaging collection... It succeeds splendidly."

About this edition

• Publisher: Signet
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0451528735
• ISBN 13: 9780451528735
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 544
• Editor: Jones Suzanne