Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-198) and index.
Contents
Arcady revisited : the poor South of Harry Crews and Dorothy Allison -- The new naturalism of Larry Brown -- Mediation, interpolation : Bobbie Ann Mason and Kaye Gibbons -- Atavism and the exploded metanarrative : Cormac McCarthy's journey to mythoclasm -- Into the suburbs : Richard Ford's sportswriter as postsouthern expatriate -- Signifyin(g) in the South : Randall Kenan -- Barry Hannah and the "open field" of southern history.
