TY - BOOK AU - Rubin,Louis D. TI - The American South: portrait of a culture T2 - Southern literary studies SN - 0807105627 AV - F209.5 .A47 U1 - 975 PY - 1980/// CY - Baton Rouge PB - Louisiana State University Press KW - American literature KW - Southern States KW - History and criticism KW - fast KW - Civilization KW - American civilization: Southern states civilization KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc N1 - 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 ER -