Stories of the Modern South by Ben Forkner

Stories of the Modern South by Ben Forkner

Some of the greatest storytellers of our time chronicle twentieth-century southern life.

Rich in irony, sly humor, and vivid, dramatic imagery, the literature of the modern South is a vital amalgam of a once-rural society's storytelling tradition and the painful contradictions and cultural clashes brought about by rapid change. The stories in this collection are as diverse as the region itself, yet they are all connected by a shared history and a uniquely southern strain of American language and narrative. Contributors include Truman Capote, William Faulkner, Carson McCullers, Flannery O'Connor, Katherine Anne Porter, Alice Walker, Eudora Welty, and Tennessee Williams.

Forkner, Ben: - Ben Forkner is the director of the English department at the University of Angers in France where he teaches American and Irish literature. A graduate of Stetson University in Florida, he received his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has co-edited three anthologies of Southern literature, Stories of the Modern South, A Modern Southern Reader, and Stories of the Old South.

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ISBN 13	9780140096958
ISBN 10	0140096957
Title	Stories of the Modern South
Author	Ben Forkner
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Penguin Books Ltd
Year published	1986-12-11
Number of pages	560
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