Barry Hannah, postmodern romantic / by Weston, Ruth D., 1934-

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An OutKast reader : essays on race, gender, and the postmodern south /

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After Southern modernism : fiction of the contemporary South / by Guinn, Matthew

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Shadow and shelter the swamp in southern culture / by Wilson, Anthony, 1975-, ProQuest Ebook Subscriptions, ProQuest (Firm)

Table of Contents: “…The swamp and antebellum southern identity -- The southern swamp in the Civil War, Reconstruction, and beyond -- The swamp in the twentieth-century South -- The swamp in the postmodern South : conservation, simulation, and commodification.…”
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Mockingbird song ecological landscapes of the South / by Kirby, Jack Temple, ProQuest Ebook Subscriptions, ProQuest (Firm)

Table of Contents: “…Johns River -- Original civilizations -- Plantation traditions -- Commoners and the commons -- Matanzas and mastery -- Enchantment and equilibrium -- Cities of clay -- Epilogue: Postmodern landscapes.…”
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Cormac McCarthy / by Jarrett, Robert L.

Table of Contents: “…The shape of a career -- New beginnings for Southern fiction: The orchard keeper and Outer dark -- Postmodern outcasts and alienation: Child of God and Suttree -- Rewriting the Southwest: Blood meridian as a revisionary western -- The border trilogy: individualism, history, and cultural crossings -- The rhetoric of McCarthy's fiction: style, visionary landscapes, and parables.…”

To hell and back : race and betrayal in the southern novel / by Abernathy, Jeff, 1964-

Table of Contents: “…Glasgow Phillips narrate a postmodern South -- Coda : in a southern accent.…”

Dixie Limited : railroads, culture, and the southern renaissance / by Millichap, Joseph R.

Table of Contents: “…Railroads, culture, and the southern renaissance -- William Faulkner's cultural history : railroads in the Sartoris fictions -- Thomas Wolfe's southern railroads : Look homeward, angel and beyond -- William Faulkner's cultural geography : railroads in Go down, Moses -- Robert Penn Warren's modern fictive railroads : All the king's men and others -- Eudora Welty's real and recreated railroads : Delta wedding -- Ralph Ellison's railroad passages : before Invisible man and after -- Robert Penn Warren's postmodern poetic railroads : ballads and recollections -- Dave Smith's post-southern railroad poetry : The roundhouse voices -- Railroads, culture, the southern renaissance, and post-southernism.…”

Beyond the Crossroads. by Gussow, Adam

Table of Contents: “…Heaven and hell parties: Southern religion and the devil's music -- Sold it to the devil: the great migration, lost generations, and the perils of the urban dance hall -- I'm going to marry the devil's daughter: blues tricksters signifying on Jim Crow -- The devil's gonna get you: blues romance and the paradoxes of black freedom -- Selling it at the crossroads: the lives and legacies of Robert Johnson -- Playing for the haints: Ike's protege and crossroads folklore -- I got a big white fella from Memphis made a deal with me: black men, white boys, and the anxieties of blues postmodernity in Walter Hill's crossroads -- Local and private legislation: branding the crossroads in Clarksdale, Mississippi.…”
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Dixie Limited : Railroads, Culture, and the Southern Renaissance. by Millichap, Joseph R.

Table of Contents: “…Robert Penn Warren's Postmodern Poetic Railroads: Ballads and Recollections; 1; 2; 3; 4; 9. …”
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Southern writers at century's end /

Table of Contents: “…Ford -- Richard Ford : postmodern cowboys / Jeffrey J. Folks -- Andre Dubus : "never truly members" / Lucy Ferriss -- Clyde Edgerton : death and dying / James A. …”

Southern writers at century's end /

Table of Contents: “…Ford -- Richard Ford : postmodern cowboys / Jeffrey J. Folks -- Andre Dubus : "never truly members" / Lucy Ferriss -- Clyde Edgerton : death and dying / James A. …”
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South to a new place : region, literature, culture /

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The world is our home : society and culture in contemporary southern writing /

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Southern women playwrights : new essays in literary history and criticism /

Table of Contents: “…Ellen Gainor -- Dialectic and the drama of Naomi Wallace / Claudia Barnett -- Amparo Garcia and the eyes of Tejas : Texas community through Mexicana eyes / Carolyn Roark -- Reconfiguring history : migration, memory, and (re)membering in Suzan-Lori Parks's plays / Elizabeth Brown-Guillory -- The memory palace in Paula Vogel's plays / Alan Shepard and Mary Lamb -- Postmodern monologues in Regina Porter's tripping through the Car house / Mary Resing -- Southern women playwrights and the Atlanta hub : home is the place where you go / Linda Rohrer Paige.…”

The world is our home : society and culture in contemporary Southern writing /

Table of Contents: “…Wood -- Richard Ford : the postmodern exile and the vanishing South / Joanna Price.…”
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