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Book SynopsisDescribes and discusses the work of southern writers who began their careers in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. They fall into two categories. Some, born into the working class, strove to become writers and learned without benefit of higher education. Others came from lower- or middle-class backgrounds and became writers through practice and education.
Trade ReviewRough South, Rural South surveys a vibrant cultural scene centered on the traditionally marginalized matter of social class in the far reaches of the US South. The impressive essays in this collection call attention to contemporary writers and filmmakers who take different paths to reach the common ground of depicting hardscrabble places and people with a gritty, imaginative vision that eschews caricature in favor of complexity. There is a necessary roughness at work here - a forceful critical engagement with the harsh realities and difficult questions that the artists under examination lay bare."" - Ted Atkinson, editor of
Mississippi Quarterly and author of
Faulkner and the Great Depression: Aesthetics, Ideology, and Cultural Politics
