New Stories by Southern Women

By Mary Ellis Gibson

Book Overview

This collection brings together twenty-one stories by women who grew up in the South and have published important fiction in the last decade. It is the first such collection of fiction by southern women, and it comes at a time when southern women writers can see themselves as part of a distinguished and distinctive tradition. Collected here are stories that represent the variety of southern life-from house trailers to condominiums, from rural to urban settings. They analyze, often explicitly from a woman's point of view, the dailiness of life, the nature of living within a social fabric that may seem hopelessly torn but that someone must repair. Although they vary significantly in tone and focus, common themes emerge-families, their food and communal culture; their disintegration and reconstitution in a changing culture; and relationships between women and men, between mothers and children, between women, between the classes. Often unassuming in tone, but always technically accomplished, these stories indicate the breadth and power of current writing by southern women.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0872496341
• ISBN13: 9780872496347
• Release Date: June 1989
• Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
• Length: 302 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

GREAT examples of writing by Southern Women

The True South has produced some incredible Women Authors and most of them are represented here. Being a Southerner myself, I can completely relate to the locations as the cadence and the mind-sets that these women put on paper. A few highlights: Author Lee Smith (a personal fave) writes a story called "Heat Lightning" that captures the spirit and mood of a carnival moving into town. Stories by Ellen Gilchrist (she won the Pulitzer) and Jill McCorkle as well as Alice Walker are just some of the outstanding Women Southern Writers represented here. If you are a Southerner, or want to see it reflected by these very talented women, order this book.