Inventing southern literature
By: Michael Kreyling.
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Jackson
Language: eng
Number of pages: 218
ISBN-13: 9781578060450
Subjects: American literature -- Southern States -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.; American literature -- Southern States -- History and criticism.; Criticism -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century.; Group identity in literature.; Regionalism in literature.; Southern States -- Intellectual life.; Southern States -- In literature.
Description: In Inventing Southern Literature Michael Kreyling casts a penetrating ray upon the traditional canon of southern literature and questions the modes by which it was created. He finds that it was, indeed, an invention rather than a creation.

From their heyday to the present, Kreyling investigates the historical conditions under which literary and cultural critics have invented "the South" and how they have chosen its representations. Through his study of these choices, Kreyling argues that interested groups have shaped meanings that preserve "a South" as "the South."
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [183]-193) and index.