The Future of Southern Letters

Humphries and Lowe have assembled a team of scholars and writers, from Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Fred Hobson to esteemed scholar James Olney to poet Kate Daniels, to examine aspects of the contemporary literature of the South. Addressing topics such as humour, the weight of the past, black autobiography, ethnicity, and female oral tradition, the contributors try to define Southern culture today and ask who will be writing Southern literature tomorrow.