The Southern State of Mind
Published on 30. May 2010
Book
Paperback/Softback
256 pages
978-1-57003-899-0 (ISBN)
Description
This title offers rich insights into Southern life, letters, and culture in the new millennium. In a collection of essays as provocative as the region that inspired them, leading historians and literary critics offer a combined effort to define Southern identity at the end of the twentieth century. Removed from the devotional, certifying, and celebratory view of the South that has dominated books of this genre, ""The Southern State of Mind"" addresses the question of whether inherited Southern values, problems, and contradictions have survived the onslaught of modernization. The overarching dialogue among the contributors illustrates how the ideological self-identification in the South has a powerful potential for shaping national attitudes.
Reviews / Votes
"Gretlund has collected a deeply thoughtful set of reflections about the contemporary regional spirit....Those interested in Southern intellectuality will find this volume highly rewarding." - Journal of Southern History "Gretlund has here assembled an impressive group of Southern political scientists, historians, and literary critics, whose work together reinforces the truism that Southern studies at its best casts a wide interdisciplinary net." - North Carolina Historical Review"More details
Language
English
Place of publication
South Carolina
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 228 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
390 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-57003-899-0 (9781570038990)
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Person
Jan Norby Gretlund is a senior lecturer in American literature at the Center for American Studies, University of Southern Denmark and the author of Eudora Welty's Aesthetics of Place and Frames of Southern Mind: Reflections on the Stoic, Bi-racial, and Existential South. Karl-Heinz Westarp is the former chair of the Department of English at the University of Aarhus in Denmark and the author of Flannery O'Connor: The Growing Craft and Precision and Depth: In Flannery O'Connor's Short Stories. With Gretlund he is coeditor of Walker Percy: Novelist and Philosopher, The Late Novels of Eudora Welty, and Realist of Distances: Flannery O'Connor Revisited.||James C. Cobb is B. Phinizy Spalding Distinguished Professor in the History of the American South at the University of Georgia