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reviews Our regular review section features some of the best new books and films. From time to time, you'll also find reviews of important new museum exhibitions and public history sites, and retrospectives on classic works that continue to shape our understanding of the South and its people. To commemorate our five-year anniversary, we devote our entire review section in this issue to a phenomenon which itself has continued to grow over the last five years: southern working class fiction. Here, Erik Bledsoe offers insight about some of the most important new voices in southern literature, with a special emphasis on the works of three recent stars: Larry Brown, Dorothy Allison, and Tim McLaurin. by Erik Bledsoe Linda Tate has noted, with a touch ofhyperbole, that "[traditionally, southern literature has been understood to be that written by white men and, on rare occasions, by white women -- and, in almost all cases, by and about white southerners of the upper middle class." As recendy as 1988, another critic claimed, albeit incorrectly, that Harry Crews "is absolutely unique among Southern writers in that he writes about life from the perspective of the poor white. He writes from within the
Southern Cultures – University of North Carolina Press
Published: Jan 4, 2000
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