Tell about the South : the southern rage to explain

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Tell about the South : the southern rage to explain

Fred Hobson

(Southern literary studies)

Louisiana State University Press, 1998

Louisiana paperback ed

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Bibliography: p. 355-381

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In this insight-studded work that established him as the premier interpreter of southern literary culture, Fred Hobson explores the southern urge toward self-examination, the seeming compulsion of southern writers to discuss their region - some defending it, others damning it. He focuses on fourteen practitioners of the southern genre of regional confession who wrote between 1850 and 1970, showing how they - in many cases linking their own destinies with the fate of the South - produced deeply felt, impassioned books that sought to explain the region to outsiders as well as to fellow southerners, and perhaps most of all to themselves.

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