{"product_id":"growing-up-in-the-south-isbn-9780451528735","title":"Growing Up in the South","description":"Something about the South has inspired the imaginations of an extraordinary number of America’s best storytellers—and greatest writers. That quality may be a rich, unequivocal sense of place, a living connection with the past, or the contradictions and passions that endow this region with awesome beauty and equally awesome tragedy. The stories in this superb collection of modern Southern writing are about childhood, adolescence, and young adulthood—in other words, about growing up in the South. Flannery O’Connor’s “Everything That Rises Must Converge,” set in a South that remains segregated even after segregation is declared illegal, is the story of a white college student who chastises his mother for her prejudice against blacks. But black, white, aristocrat, or sharecropper, each of these 23 authors is unmistakably Southern—and their writing is indisputably wonderful.Growing Up in the SouthIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eI. Remembering Southern Places\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eElizabeth Spencer, \"The Gulf Coast\"\u003cbr\u003eHarry Crews, from \u003ci\u003eA Childhood: The Biography of a Place\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEudora Welty, from \u003ci\u003eOne Writer's Beginnings\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBobbie Ann Mason, \"State Champions\"\u003cbr\u003eGustavo Pérez Firmat, \"Mooning over Miami\"\u003cbr\u003eRandall Kenan, \"Where Am I Black\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eII. Experiencing Southern Families\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWilliam Hoffman, \"Amazing Grace\"\u003cbr\u003eAlice Walker, \"Everyday Use\"\u003cbr\u003eLee Smith, \"Artists\"\u003cbr\u003eShirley Ann Grau, \"Homecoming\"\u003cbr\u003eEllen Gilchrist, \"The President of the Louisiana Live Oak  Society\"\u003cbr\u003eMary Hood, \"How Far She Went\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIII. Negotiating Southern Communities\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRichard Wright, \"The Man Who Was Almost a Man\"\u003cbr\u003eFlannery O'Connor, \"Everything That Rises Must Converge\"\u003cbr\u003ePeter Taylor, \"The Old Forest\"\u003cbr\u003eGail Godwin, \"The Angry Year\"\u003cbr\u003eMichael Malone, \"Fast Love\"\u003cbr\u003eJill McCorkle, \"Carnival Lights\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIV. Challanging Southern Traditions\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWilliam Faulkner, \"An Odor of Verbena\"\u003cbr\u003eMary Mebane, from \u003ci\u003eMary\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnne Moody, from \u003ci\u003eComing of Age in Mississippi\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJoan Williams, \"Spring Is Now\"\u003cbr\u003eHenry Louis Gates, Jr., \"Sin Boldly\"\u003cbr\u003eErnest J. Gaines, \"Thomas Vincent Sullivan\"\u003c\/p\u003eSuzanne W. Jones is a professor of American Literature and Women’s Studies at the University of Richmond. The author of a number of essays about southern literature, she is also the editor of another collection of stories, \u003cb\u003eCrossing the Color Line: Readings in Black and White\u003c\/b\u003e, and two collections of essays, \u003cb\u003eSouth to a New Place\u003c\/b\u003e (with Sharon Monteith) and \u003cb\u003eWriting the Woman Artist\u003c\/b\u003e.","brand":"Signet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46301053059301,"sku":"NP9780451528735","price":9.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780451528735.jpg?v=1767728535","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/growing-up-in-the-south-isbn-9780451528735","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}