Southern Writers Bear Witness

Southern Writers Bear Witness

Interviews

  • Autor: Gretlund, Jan Nordby; Turner, Daniel Cross
  • Editor: University of South Carolina Press
  • ISBN: 9781611178760
  • eISBN Pdf: 9781611178777
  • eISBN Epub: 9781611178777
  • Lugar de publicación:  South Carolina , Estados Unidos
  • Año de publicación digital: 2018
  • Mes: Julio
  • Idioma: Ingles

Fourteen Southern storytellers reveal their influences, methods and daily routines, and struggles with the writing process

Jan Nordby Gretlund has been studying the literature of the American South for some fifty years, and his outsider's perspective as a European scholar has made him an intellectually acute witness of both the literature and its creators. Whether it is their language and reflexive storytelling or the craft and techniques by which writers transform life and experience into art that fascinates Gretlund, elements of their fiction led to his interviews with the fourteen storytellers featured in Southern Writers Bear Witness.

Gretlund believes a good interview will always reveal something about a writer's life and character, details that can inform a reading of that writer's fiction. The interviewer's task, according to Gretlund, is to supply the reader with some of the sources and experiences that inspired and shaped the fiction. Through his conversations Gretlund also occasionally elicits the subjects' reflections on other writers and their work to discover affiliations, lines of influence, and divergences, and he also emphasizes the enduring power of their work.

His interviews with Eudora Welty and Pam Durban uncover strong family and community experiences found at the core of their fiction. Gretlund also turns conversations to the craft of writing, writers' daily routines, and specific problems encountered in their work, such as Clyde Edgerton's struggle with point of view. In other exchanges he investigates distinctive elements of a writer's work, such as violence in Barry Hannah's fiction and religious faith in Walker Percy's. Still other conversations, such as his with Josephine Humphreys, touch on the pressures and opportunities of publishing and its influence on the writer's work. Taken together, these authors' insights on life in the South provide a fascinating window into the creative process of storytelling as well as the human experiences that fuel it.

A foreword by Daniel Cross Turner, author of Southern Crossings: Poetry, Memory, and the Transcultural South and co-editor of Undead Souths: The Gothic and Beyond in Southern Literature and Culture and Hard Lines: Rough South Poetry, is also included.

Featured Authors:
Pat Conroy
Pam Durban
Clyde Edgerton
Percival Everett
Kaye Gibbons
Barry Hannah
Mary Hood
Josephine Humphreys
Madison Jones
Martin Luther King Sr.
Walker Percy
Ron Rash
Dori Sanders
Eudora Welty

  • Cover
  • Southern Writers Bear Witness
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • CONTENTS
  • FOREWORD
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • Autobiography and Fiction: An Interview with Pat Conroy Beaufort Inn, November 4, 2015
  • Lines out across the Gap: An Interview with Pam Durban Beaufort, South Carolina, January 23, 2004
  • Interview with Clyde Edgerton Jackson, Mississippi, March 26, 1996
  • Interview with Clyde Edgerton Wilmington, North Carolina, September 29, 2010
  • Percival Everett Odense, Denmark, March 13–14, 2013
  • In My Own Style: An Interview with Kaye Gibbons Raleigh, North Carolina, June 18, 1996
  • Interview with Barry Hannah Oxford, Mississippi, April 12, 1982
  • Interview with Barry Hannah His home on Van Buren Street, south of Oxford, Mississippi, June 3, 1985
  • Fiction Is Like Fire and Flood: Interviews with Mary Hood Oxford, Mississippi, March 26, 1996; Woodstock, Georgia, October 30, 2000
  • Interview with Mary Hood Commerce, Georgia, October 29, 2014
  • The Excitement and the Mystery of the Immediate: Interviews with Josephine Humphreys The Confederate Widows’ Home, Charleston, South Carolina, May 26, 1993; January 27, 1996; May 9, 2000; May 2, 2001
  • Interview with Josephine Humphreys Charleston, South Carolina, October 21, 2014
  • Out of the Garden Forever: Interviews with Madison Jones Auburn, Alabama, June 3, 1978; January 12, 1981
  • A Good Man with a Good Voice—“You can lead a mule to water”: Interview with Martin Luther King Sr. The Ebenezer Baptist Church, Atlanta, Georgia, June 1, 1978
  • Laying the Ghost of Marcus Aurelius: An Interview with Walker Percy Covington, Louisiana, January 2, 1981
  • Difficult Times: An Interview with Walker Percy Covington, Louisiana, January 29, 1985
  • Interview with Ron Rash: With Thomas Bjerre’s Participation Clemson, South Carolina, October 28, 2014
  • Interviews with Dori Sanders York County, South Carolina, March 11, 1996; Aeroe Island, Denmark, August 23, 1997; Beaufort, South Carolina, January 29, 1999; Hilton Head, South Carolina, November 5, 2010
  • Interviews with Eudora Welty 1119 Pinehurst Street, Jackson, Mississippi, February 9, June 8, 1978
  • Seeing Real Things: An Interview with Eudora Welty 1119 Pinehurst Street, Jackson, Mississippi, May 20, 1993
  • INDEX OF AUTHORS AND WORKS

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