Routledge Companion to Literature of the U.S. South

Katharine A. Burnett is Associate Professor of English at Fisk University, USA.Todd Hagstette is Associate Professor of English at the University of South Carolina Aiken, USA.Monica Carol Miller is Assistant Professor of English at Middle Georgia State University, USA.

"One echo above all came to mind when I read the introduction and contents of the new Routledge Companion to Southern Literature: "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." Jefferson has been placed in both categories over the long haul of southern studies. The editors and contributors to this new volume should be looked at as significant "refreshers." How far we have come from Jay Hubbell's The South in American Literature."-Michael Kreyling, author of Inventing Southern Literature (1998) and The South That Wasn't There (2010)

• IntroductionKatharine A. Burnett, Todd Hagstette, and Monica Carol MillerPart I: Foundations Introduction: FoundationsTodd Hagstette1. Academic Origins of Southern Studies (Spotlight: I’ll Take My Stand)Ted Atkinson2. Antebellum Literature (Spotlight: William Gilmore Simms)Katharine A. Burnett3. Appalachian Literature (Spotlight: Ron Rash)Zackary Vernon4. The Civil War (Spotlight: Augusta Jane Evans) Karen Tracey5. Class and Economics (Spotlight: Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (1941))David A. Davis6. Colonial Writing (Spotlight: John Smith)Dan Waldon7. Community (Spotlight: Monique Truong)Elizabeth Gardner8. Drama (Spotlight: Tennessee Williams)William Mark Poteet9. Film (Spotlight: Deliverance)Robert Jackson10. Foodways (Spotlight: Rick Bragg)Erica Abrams Locklear11. Gender (Spotlight: Sherley Anne Williams)Michael Bibler12. The Global South (Spotlight: Yaa Gyasi) Amy K. King13. The Harlem Renaissance (Spotlight: Jean Toomer) Ricardo A. Wilson II14. Home (Spotlight: Alice Walker)Nagueyalti Warren15. Humor (Spotlight: Mark Twain)John Bird16. Jim Crow and the Civil Rights Era (Spotlight: To Kill a Mockingbird)Julie Buckner Armstrong17. Local Color and Regionalism (Spotlight: Charles Chesnutt)Bill Hardwig18. Modernism (Spotlight: William Faulkner)Thomas F. Haddox19. Music (Spotlight: The Country-Soul Triangle [Memphis-Muscle Shoals-Nashville])Ellie Campbell20. Native Souths (Spotlight: LeAnne Howe)Kirstin L. Squint21. Poetry and Verse (Spotlight: Natasha Trethewey)Christie Collins22. Postbellum Literature (Spotlight: Thomas Nelson Page)Christopher Bundrick23. Reconstruction and the New South (Spotlight: Frances Ellen Watkins Harper)Sherita Johnson24. Religion (Spotlight: Flannery O’Connor)Matt Bryant Cheney25. Science and Technology (Spotlight: Walker Percy)Doug Davis26. Sexuality (Spotlight: Kate Chopin)Jaime Cantrell27. Slave Narratives (Spotlight: Frederick Douglass)Sandra Burr28. Southern Gothic (Spotlight: Toni Morrison)Melanie Anderson29. Southern Periodical Culture (Spotlight: The Double Dealer [1921-1926])Sian Round30. Wilderness South (Spotlight: James Kilgo)Anthony Dyer HoeferPart II: TouchstonesIntroduction: TouchstonesKatharine A. Burnett31. Anti-Tom Literature (Spotlight: Caroline Lee Hentz)Peter Templeton32. Asian American South (Spotlight: Ha Jin)Suzanne Kamata33. Autobiography (Spotlight: Maya Angelou)Matthew Sutton34. Blues (Spotlight: Langston Hughes)Elizabeth LeRud35. Children’s Literature (Spotlight: Mildred Taylor)Laura Hakala36. Classical Music (Spotlight: James Weldon Johnson)Tamyln Avery37. Cold War Literature (Spotlight: Ralph Ellison)Atsushi Marutani38. Cosmopolitanism (Spotlight: Edgar Allan Poe)Kristopher Mecholsky39. Creolization (Spotlight: George Washington Cable)Amanda M. Capelli40. Detective and Mystery Fiction (Spotlight: Margaret Maron)John Jebb41. Early Contact Souths (Spotlight: La Florida)E. Thomson Shields, Jr.42. Ecocriticism and the Environment (Spotlight: Wendell Berry)Sarah-Marie Horning43. Feminism (Spotlight: Lee Smith)Monica Carol Miller44. Grit Lit (Spotlight: Larry Brown)Peter Jay Ingrao45. Hispanophone Literatures (Spotlight: Nineteenth-Century Hispanophone Periodical Poetry)Ayendy Bonifacio46. Ireland and the U.S. South (Spotlight: Lafcadio Hearn)Jessica L. Martell 47. The Lost Cause Myth (Spotlight: Gone with the Wind)Sean Heuston48. Masculinity (Spotlight: Robert Penn Warren)Wes Berry49. Migration (Spotlight: Gayl Jones)Joanna Davis-McElligatt50. New Southern Studies (Spotlight: Kiese Laymon)Kathryn McKee51. Nostalgia (Spotlight: Peter Taylor)W. Matthew J. Simmons52. Old Southwestern Humor (Spotlight: Johnson Jones Hooper)John Miller53. Plantation Fiction (Spotlight: John Pendleton Kennedy)Christopher Bundrick54. Postbellum Slave Narratives (Spotlight: Booker T. Washington)Adam Yeich55. Pre-Invasion Indigenous Texts (Spotlight: Cherokee Oral Stories)Eric Gary Anderson56. The Proslavery Argument (Spotlight: James Henry Hammond)Todd Hagstette57. Southern Diarists (Spotlight: Mary Chesnut)Julia Nitz58. Television (Spotlight: Ava DuVernay, Queen Sugar)Stephanie Rountree59. The Transatlantic South (Spotlight: Katherine Anne Porter)Joseph Kuhn60. Virginia before Jefferson (Spotlight: William Byrd II)Amanda Louise Johnson61. Women’s Slave Narratives (Spotlight: Harriet Ann Jacobs)Delphine Louis-DimitrovPart III: TrajectoriesIntroduction: TrajectoriesMonica Carol Miller62. Activism (Spotlight: Toni Cade Bambara)Elizabeth Rodriguez Fielder63. Affect (Spotlight: Eudora Welty)Jill Fennell64. Afrofuturism (Spotlight: W.E.B. Du Bois)Samanda Robinson 65. Border Souths (Spotlight: Cormac McCarthy)Sally Ann Schutz66. The Carceral South (Spotlight: Ernest Gaines)Elizabeth Steeby67. Comics in the U.S. South (Spotlight: Nate Powell)Matthew Teutsch68. Disability Studies (Spotlight: Carson McCullers)Bruce Henderson69. Environmental Refugees (Spotlight: Moira Crone)Zackary Vernon70. The Freak South (Spotlight: Erskine Caldwell)Erik Kline71. The Gulf South (Spotlight: Jesmyn Ward)Jim Coby72. Hip Hop and the South (Spotlight: Atlanta Hip Hop)Urszula Niewiadomska-Flis73. Lesbian South (Spotlight: Dorothy Allison)Jamie Harker74. Mill Town Literature (Spotlight: Wiley Cash)Jimmy Dean Smith75. Multiethnic Souths (Spotlight: Lan Cao’s Monkey Bridge)Amy Schmidt76. Neo-Slave Narratives (Spotlight: Colson Whitehead)Allison Harris77. New Media (Spotlight: Blake Hausman)Gina Caison78. The Ozarks (Spotlight: Donald Harington)Joe Farmer79. Plantationocene (Spotlight Randall Kenan)Sandra Burr80. Queer Souths (Spotlight: Randall Kenan)Eric Solomon81. Southern Cityscapes (Spotlight: George Saunders)William Murray82. Southern Hyperboles (Spotlight: Lillian Smith)Michał Choiński83. Southern Pirates (Spotlight: Joseph Holt Ingraham)Kathleen Crosby84. The Speculative South (Spotlight: Octavia Butler)Ellie Campbell85. Trans and Non-Binary Souths (Spotlight: Meredith Russo)Phillip "Pip" Gordon86. Trauma (Spotlight: William Styron)Jean W. Cash87. Undead Souths (Spotlight: Dead Birds)Eric Gary Anderson88. Understanding Southern Studies and Cultural StudiesJennie Lightweis-Goff