Argues that writers like Cable, Twain, and Faulkner cannot be read exclusively within the context of a nationalistically... Læs mere
In the summer of 1866, racial tensions ran high in Louisiana as a constitutional convention considered disenfranchising former Confederates... Læs mere
On April 22, 1896, Martin Begnaud was brutally murdered in his general store in Scott Station, Louisiana. By intertwining a suspenseful account of this... Læs mere
Ted Tunnell's superbly researched biography of Marshall H. Twitchell is a major addition to Reconstruction literature. This first full-length study of Twitchell is edifying, entertaining, and cutting-edge scholarship.
Though slavery was widespread and antislavery sentiment rare in Alabama, there emerged a small loyalist population, mostly in the... Læs mere
The Civil War writings of G. Campbell Brown - cousin, stepson, and staff officer of famed Confederate General Richard S. Ewell -... Læs mere
A riveting war epic of local scale and human dimensions. Taking its title from the cry raised in Williamsburg as the Federal army approached in... Læs mere
On a pilgrimage to the Kingdom of Nepal, a group of American women trek into the Himalayas. Ava Leavell Haymon responds with language that strives to reconcile the... Læs mere
In her enchanting poem sequence, Doris Davenport introduces readers to Soque Street and its “Affrilachian” residents. These African Americans inhabiting an Appalachian community in northeast Georgia live in a world where magic threads daily life and the living and dead commingle.
Hubert McAlexander's accomplished portrait of Peter Taylor (1917-1994) achieves a remarkable intimacy with this central figure in the history of the American short story and one of the greatest southern writers of his time.
Offers the first systematic history and definition of the short-story cycle as exemplified in contemporary American fiction,... Læs mere