| Tell about the South: The Southern Rage to Explain Contributor(s): Hobson, Fred (Author) |
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ISBN: 0807111317 ISBN-13: 9780807111314 Publisher: LSU Press OUR PRICE: $20.85 Product Type: Paperback Published: October 1983 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | American - General - History | United States - State & Local - General |
| Dewey: 810.997 |
| LCCN: 83005477 |
| Series: Southern Literary Studies |
| Physical Information: 0.81" H x 6.06" W x 9.02" (1.21 lbs) 408 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - South |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In this insight-studded work that established him as the premier interpreter of southern literary culture, Fred Hobson explores the southern urge toward self-examination, the seeming compulsion of southern writers to discuss their region -- some defending it, others damning it. He focuses on fourteen practitioners of the southern genre of regional confession who wrote between 1850 and 1970, showing how they -- in many cases linking their own destinies with the fate of the South -- produced deeply felt, impassioned books that sought to explain the region to outsiders as well as to fellow southerners, and perhaps most of all to themselves. |