Publisher's Synopsis
From the irrepressible character of William Faulkner to current popular excitement over Cormac McCarthy, Southern fiction remains a vibrant and colorful part of American fiction. This carefully annotated bibliography lists sources of criticism for thirty-nine Southern male authors, each of whom has published at least one significant book of fiction between 1970 and 1994. The book broadens the term "Southern," by including men who were raised in the South and have since left, such as Robert Morgan and Ernest Gaines, and those who have never lived in the South but nevertheless consider it the appropriate setting for all their fictional work, such as Robert Olen Butler. The selection criteria tends toward exposing the lesser known critical interpretations of important authors and providing unusual glances at their creative work. The book includes critical material that could be overlooked, such as interviews and uncollected essays, as well as the better known critical sources, such as individual author bibliographies. A priceless work of scholarship.
