With The Killing Ground Mary Lee Settle completes her grand design for The Beulah Quintet, an unforgettable generational saga about the roots of American culture, class, and identity and the meaning
In Children's Biographies of African American Women: Rhetoric, Public Memory, and Agency Sara C. VanderHaagen examines how these biographies encourage young readers to think about themselves as agents
"How can we make South Carolina better?" Normally this issue is reserved for lawmakers and voters, but Writing South Carolina, volume 3, gives voice to fifty high school juniors and seniors from acros
Burke in the Archives brings together thirteen original essays by leading and emerging Kenneth Burke scholars to explore provocatively the twenty-first-century usefulness of a figure widely regarded a
In this lively anthology, George William Koon surveys one of America's most fascinating historical events through one of its most noteworthy literary forms - the short story. The resulting tour de for
One of the great rivalries in Southern history is depicted here, with copious details on the feud that ripped two families apart and spawned a sensational series of killings, trials, and executions in
Almost immediately after the Civil War ended, Yates (1825-1913) began writing her account of being a chief matron in the massive Chimorazo Hospital in Richmond, Virginia beginning in later 1862. Geor
Tells the story of Union and Rebel soldiers who recorded their experiences and emotions in the largest outpouring of letter writing in America's history. Draws on hundreds of rare and obscure sources
Percival Everett, a distinguished professor of English at the University of Southern California, is the author of more than thirty books on a wide variety of subjects and genres. Among his many honors
In the late 1950s the notion of a "mother poem" emerged during a confessional literary movement that freed poets to use personal, psychosexual material about intimate topics such as parents, childhood
Part of a multivolume series collecting essays, forum discussions, and interviews from Historically Speaking, the Historical Society journal that is intended to make the work of prominent historians a
Bruccoli (English, U. of South Carolina) intended his biography, first published by Harcourt Brace Javanovich in 1981, to resurrect American writer Fitzgerald (1896-1940) from the mythology his life h
Lu (communications, DePaul U.) identifies the rhetorical features and persuasive effects of the symbols and symbolic practices of the 1966-79 Chinese Proletarian Cultural Revolution, which she calls o
A diverse anthology of short fiction by modern-day Indian women writers introduces fifteen short stories that represent the rich variety of language, culture, traditions, and regions of the Indian sub
A survey of the life and work of the 2001 Nobel Laureate for Literature, V. S. Naipaul, Man and Writer introduces readers to the writer widely viewed as a curmudgeonly novelist who finds special satis
Historians and scholars of religion from the US and Europe explore changing images of specific saints and the societies that created those images to suit varying psychic and social needs; and the natu
Jan Nordby Gretlund has been studying the literature of the American South for some fifty years, and his outsider's perspective as a European scholar has made him an intellectually acute witness of bo
