Title: Inventing southern literature
First published: 1998
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."
Subjects: History and criticism, American literature, Criticism, Theory, Intellectual life, Regionalism in literature, Group identity in literature, In literature, History, American literature, history and criticism, Criticism, united states, Southern states, intellectual life, Southern states, in literature, Littérature américaine, Histoire et critique, Théorie, Critique, Histoire, Dans la littérature, Identité collective dans la littérature, Littérature régionale, LITERARY CRITICISM, American, General, Literature
Places: Southern States
Time periods: 20th century, Southern States
LC classification: PS261 .K7 1998