Southern Selves: From Mark Twain and Eudora Welty to Maya Angelou and Kaye Gibbons A Collection of Autobiographical Writing - Softcover

Watkins, James

Softcover

ISBN 10: 067978103X ISBN 13: 9780679781035

Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1998

Synopsis

In this marvelous anthology thirty-one of the South's finest writers--from Kaye Gibbons and Reynolds Price, to Eudora Welty and Richard Wright--make their intensely personal contributions to a vibrant collective picture of southern life.
In the hands of these superb artists, the South's rich tradition of storytelling is brilliantly revealed. Whether slave or master, intellectual or "redneck, " each voice in this moving and unforgettable collection is proof that southern literature richly deserves its reputation for irreverent humor, exquisite language, a feeling for place, and an undying, often heartbreaking sense of the past.

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About the Author

James Watkins was born in Memphis, Tennessee, and moved with his family to Nashville at age thirteen. After obtaining a bachelor's degree at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, he attended graduate school at the University of Florida, where he earned his doctorate in 1995. He and his wife and two sons currently live on the campus of Berry College in Rome, George, where he teaches southern and nineteenth-century American literature.

Synopsis

This memoir seeks to capture not only the se lf but a world, and the world of the American South is brill iantly served up by the 31 authors brought together in this collection of memoirs and autobiographical writings. '

About this edition

• Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 067978103X
• ISBN 13: 9780679781035
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 400