In alphabetical entries, the author presents "literature, motifs, historical eras, writers, titles, and genres as a method of defining and exemplifying the regi

Editors Wilson (history, Mississippi) and Ferris (anthropology, Detroit and Bakersfield. Literate, scholarly and pithy entries accompanied by well chosen photog

New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Volume 1: Religion

In this innovative approach to southern literary cultures, Thadious Davis analyzes how black southern writers use their spatial location to articulate the vexed

Biographical sketches of 378 writers associated with the American South are included in this important new reference work. Compiled by 172 scholars, these summa