John Gregory Brown's debut novel examines family, race, and faith in a heartbreaking tale of identity, devotion, and regret. The story centers on the Eagen family of New Orleans, Irish Catholics of "m
Charleston and the Great Depression tells many stories of the city during the 1930s--an era of tremendous want, hope, and change--through a collection of forty annotated primary documents. Included ar
Working on the Dock of the Bay explores the history of waterfront labor and laborers--black and white, enslaved and free, native and immigrant--in Charleston, South Carolina, between the American Revo
Looks at the career of the novelist, drawing connections between Vonnegut's writings and social and historical developments along with an assessment of his impact on American culture and society.
Spoofing the Modern is the first book devoted solely to studying the role satire played in the movement known as the "New Negro," or Harlem, Renaissance from 1919 to 1940. As the fir
Pat Conroy's work as a novelist and a memoirist has indelibly shaped the image of the American South in the cultural imagination. His writing has rendered the physical landscape of the South Carolina
This anthology contains 13 texts that reveal the development of pro-slavery perspectives in the American South during the colonial and early national periods. A diverse assortment of texts includes a
Art and Craft presents the hand-picked fruit of Bill Thompson's three decades covering writers and writing as book review editor of Charleston, South Carolina's Post and Courier. Beginning with a fore
In this study of the particular place from which Eudora Welty's writing arises, Jan Nordby Gretlund argues for the importance of considering the historical and cultural background for Welty's literary
"It was hard times," French Carpenter Clark recalls, a sentiment unanimously echoed by the sixteen other women who talk about their lives in Country Women Cope with Hard Times. Born between 1890 and 1
Davis (English and southern studies, Mercer U.) presents John L. Spivak's novel Georgia Nigger (1932), along with an introduction to the novel in historical context, additional documents Spivak gather
Shuler (English, Denison U.) is a native of Orangeburg, South Carolina. In 1968, two years before the Kent State massacre, police officers shot and killed civil rights demonstrators at the local South
Though he has never been a member of a third political party, Gillespie (political science, College of Charleston/the Citadel) argues that such parties matter as challenges to the "duopoly" of Democra
Murphy (English, U. of Connecticut) profiles playwright David Mamet (b.1947) and thoroughly discusses his significant plays (among them: Glengarry Glen Ross, American Buffalo, Sexual Perversity in Chi
"In these pages Charlene Spearen steps out of her shadows and loses her privacies and her good girl clothes to illuminate for us mysteries hidden in unswept corners and to poke and prod valiantly at m
