Tell about the South: The Southern Rage to Explain

By Fred Hobson

Book Overview

In this insight-studded work that established him as the premier interpreter of southern literary culture, Fred Hobson explores the southern urge toward self-examination, the seeming compulsion of southern writers to discuss their region -- some defending it, others damning it. He focuses on fourteen practitioners of the southern genre of regional confession who wrote between 1850 and 1970, showing how they -- in many cases linking their own destinies with the fate of the South -- produced deeply felt, impassioned books that sought to explain the region to outsiders as well as to fellow southerners, and perhaps most of all to themselves.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807111317
• ISBN13: 9780807111314
• Release Date: October 1983
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 408 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.0"