Title: Downhome
Description: The South - within its diversity of voices and experiences lies "a shared legacy: the act of speech - of stories handed down in which a distinctive language is honored, a language rich in Biblical and regional contexts; the love of place where individuals, relationships, and family histories not only matter but buttress everyday life. Both are part of that rarest and most indispensable groundspring of literature, memory. The memory of being 'Downhome.'".

Susie Mee has gathered a wealth of short fiction by southern women who - from their various backgrounds, from their different eras - draw on that shared legacy she describes in her introduction. That memory of "downhome," whether it is used lovingly or ironically, echoes throughout the seven sections here, which range from Growing Up to Kinfolk and Courtship to Passing On, and in the words of these special authors.
Subjects: Vrouwelijke auteurs, Fiction, Dans la littérature, Women authors, American fiction, Manners and customs, États-Unis (sud) dans la littérature, American Domestic fiction, Social life and customs, Moeurs et coutumes, American Short stories, Histoire, Femmes écrivains américaines, Littérature américaine, Home, Femmes et littérature, Famille, Women, Short stories, american, American fiction, women authors, American fiction (collections), 20th century, Families