Contemporary Southern Men Fiction Writers - Hardcover

Reisman, Rosemary M. Canfield; Booker-Canfield, Suzanne

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0810831953 ISBN 13: 9780810831957

Publisher: Scarecrow Press, 1998

Synopsis

From the irrepressible character of William Faulkner to current popular excitement over Cormac McCarthy, Southern fiction remains a vibrant and colorful part of American fiction.

This carefully annotated bibliography lists sources of criticism for thirty-nine Southern male authors, each of whom has published at least one significant book of fiction between 1970 and 1994. The book broadens the term "Southern," by including men who were raised in the South and have since left, such as Robert Morgan and Ernest Gaines, and those who have never lived in the South but nevertheless consider it the appropriate setting for all their fictional work, such as Robert Olen Butler. The selection criteria tends toward exposing the lesser known critical interpretations of important authors and providing unusual glances at their creative work. The book includes critical material that could be overlooked, such as interviews and uncollected essays, as well as the better known critical sources, such as individual author bibliographies. A priceless work of scholarship.

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About the Author

Rosemary M. Canfield Reisman is author of Contemporary Southern Women Fiction Writers: An Annotated Bibliography. Suzanne Booker-Canfield is a former book and magazine editor who is a doctoral candidate in English at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

Review

A thorough, comprehensive tool for students and teachers of sourthern writing, this reference work is also a worthy source for librarians, reviewers, and the media...keen, even-handed commentary on each bibliographic entry offers insight into Allan Gurganus's energetic storytelling, William Styron's stridence, Andre Dubus's lyricism, and Pete Dexter's moral integrity...the indexing is straightforward and comprehensive. (Arba)

...useful for its inclusion of good if obscure references, particularly for lesser-known writers... (Choice)

Contemporary Southern Men Fiction Writers: An Annotated Bibliography is a welcome resource for scholars, editors, teachers, critics, and students of American and Southern fiction. Not only is the work comprehensive and thorough, but the commentary is informed and authoritative, precise and informing. This volume is a new tool that will serve Southern writers and students of Southern writing for decades to come. (Robert Morgan)

...is sturdily bound for reference library usage...a useful...reference tool for libraries with collections in American literature and culture. (William Baker Reference Reviews)

...the annotated bibliography...is well written and the entries carefully selected. (Mississippi Quarterly)

...should prove most useful in academic circles, although the citations of biographies, bio-bibliographical essays, and published single-author bibliographies should also be of use to a wider audience. (Ab Bookman's Weekly)

About this edition

• Publisher: Scarecrow Press
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0810831953
• ISBN 13: 9780810831957
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 438