Description

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" Since the early 1970s southern fiction has been increasingly attentive to social issues, including the continuing struggles for racial justice and gender equality, the loss of a sense of social community, and the decline of a coherent regional identity. The essays in The World Is Our Home focus on writers who have explicitly addressed social and cultural issues in their fiction and drama, including Dorothy Allison, Horton Foote, Ernest J. Gaines, Jill McCorkle, Walker Percy, Lee Smith, William.

About the Author

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Jeffrey J. Folks is professor of literature at Doshisha University in Japan.Nancy Summer Folks is a freelance editor with more than 15 years experience working with Southern literature.