Based on a conference held at Arkansas State University in April 1988.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Writing upside down: voice and place in Southern autobiography / William Howarth -- Between individualism and community: autobiographies of Southern women / Elizabeth Fox-Genovese -- Territory behind: Mark Twain and his autobiographies / Robert Atwan -- Lives fugitive and unwritten / George Core -- Autobiographical traditions black and white / James Olney -- Eudora Welty's autobiographical duet: The optimist's daughter and One writer's beginnings / Sally Wolff -- Healing the woman within: therapeutic aspects of Ellen Glasgow's autobiography / Marilyn R. Chandler -- Autobiography in Southern journalism / Roy Reed -- Between defiance and defense: owning up to the South / James M. Cox -- Uncles and others / George Garrett -- Mosaics of Southern masculinity: small-scale mythologies / Pat C. Hoy II -- Class southerner / J. Bill Berry.