Women writers of the contemporary South
By: edited by Peggy Whitman Prenshaw.
Contributors: Prenshaw, Peggy Whitman.
Series: Southern quarterly series
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Published: 1984
Place of publication: Jackson
Language: eng
Number of pages: 323
Subjects: American fiction -- Southern States -- History and criticism.; Women and literature -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century.; American fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism.; American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.; Authors, American -- Homes and haunts -- Southern States.; Southern States -- Intellectual life -- 1865-; Southern States -- In literature.
Description: Discusses the work of Anne Tyler, Alice Walker, Gail Godwin, Beverly Lowry, Shirley Ann Grau, Lisa Alther, Ellen Douglas, Doris Betts, Elizabeth Spencer, Mary Lee Settle, Berry Morgan, Rita Mae Brown, Toni Cade Bambara, Ellen Gilchrist, Lee Smith, Joan Williams, and Bobbie Ann Mason.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 307-319.
Includes index.