The portrait of a culture Rubin, Louis D., (Louis Decimus) Jr 1923-2013 text Criticism, interpretation, etc. lau Baton Rouge Louisiana State University Press �1980 1980 monographic eng

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x, 379 pages ; 24 cm. Part I. Introduction -- The American South : The continuity ofself-definition / Louis D. Rubin, Jr. -- Part II. A changing culture -- Instant grits and plastic-wrapped crackers : Southern culture and regional development / John Shelton Reed -- Southern politics : Old and new style / William C. Havard, Jr. -- Growing up in the deep South / A conversation with Eudora Welty, Shelby Foote, Louis D. Rubin, Jr. -- Black folk of the American South : Two portraits / Mary E. Mebane -- Growing up black in the Old South and the New : or, Mr. Wheat goes with the wind / Blyden Jackson -- Religion, the Bible Belt, and the modern South / Thomas Daniel Young -- The Southern outdoors : Bass boats and bear hunts / James Seay -- Red-necks on wheels : The stock car culture / Sylvia Wilkinson -- Southern country music : A brief eulogy / Katie Letcher Lyle -- he resurgence of Southern identity / eorge B. Tindall -- Part III. Literary images -- The crisis in culture as reflected in Southern literature / Cleanth Brooks -- Mark Twain's South : Tom and Huck / Louis D. Rubin, Jr. -- Tobacco Road : Lowlife and the comic tradition / Robert D. Jacobs -- William Faulkner of Yoknapatawpha / Lewis P. Simpson -- The fading memory of the Civil War / Walter Sullivan -- The Southern provincial in metropolis / C. Hugh Holman -- The pain and the beauty : The South, the black writer, and conventions of the picaresque / J. Lee Greene -- The dominion of the fugitives and Agrarians / George Core -- The South : Distance and change / A conversation with Robert Penn Warren, William Styron, Louis D. Rubin, Jr. -- The South stage center : Hellman and Williams / Nancy M. Tischler -- Southern poetry in the last quarter of the twentieth century / William Harmon -- The boll weevil, the iron horse, and the end of the line : Thoughts on the South / Louis D. Rubin, Jr. edited by Louis D. Rubin, Jr. n-usu-- Southern States Civilization American literature Southern States History and criticism American literature Civilization Southern States American civilization: Southern states civilization F209.5 .A47 975 0807105627 9780807105627 79012316 DLC 790327 20160105160935.0 ocm04857959 eng