Downhome : an anthology of Southern women writers
Downhome : an anthology of Southern women writers
/ edited by Susie Mee
- 1st ed
- San Diego : Harcourt, Brace & Co. , c1995.
- 497 p. ; 24 cm.
"A Harvest original."
Isis / Zora Neale Hurston -- Economics / Elizabeth Seydel Morgan -- Sarah / Tina McElroy Ansa -- The star in the valley / Mary Noailles Murfree -- The ugliest pilgrim / Doris Betts -- Music / Ellen Gilchrist -- The wide net / Eudora Welty -- After Moore / Mary Hood -- White rat / Gayl Jones -- Dare's gift / Ellen Glasgow -- First dark / Elizabeth Spencer -- Shiloh / Bobbie Ann Mason -- Good country people / Flannery O'Connor -- Everyday use / Alice Walker -- Yellow ribbons / Susie Mee -- Tongues of fire / Lee Smith -- Gospel song / Dorothy Allison -- A new life / Mary Ward Brown -- The grave / Katherine Anne Porter -- And with a vengeance / Margaret Gibson -- The third of July / Elizabeth Cox -- About the authors
Susie Mee has gathered a wealth of short fiction by southern women who--from their various backgrounds, from their different eras--draw on that shared lagacy she describes as that memory of "downhome," whether it is used lovingly or ironically.
9780156001212
95018978
Short stories, American
Women----Fiction
American fiction----20th century
Home----Fiction
Southern States---Social life and customs----Fiction
Domestic fiction
PS551 / .D69 1995
FIC DOW
"A Harvest original."
Isis / Zora Neale Hurston -- Economics / Elizabeth Seydel Morgan -- Sarah / Tina McElroy Ansa -- The star in the valley / Mary Noailles Murfree -- The ugliest pilgrim / Doris Betts -- Music / Ellen Gilchrist -- The wide net / Eudora Welty -- After Moore / Mary Hood -- White rat / Gayl Jones -- Dare's gift / Ellen Glasgow -- First dark / Elizabeth Spencer -- Shiloh / Bobbie Ann Mason -- Good country people / Flannery O'Connor -- Everyday use / Alice Walker -- Yellow ribbons / Susie Mee -- Tongues of fire / Lee Smith -- Gospel song / Dorothy Allison -- A new life / Mary Ward Brown -- The grave / Katherine Anne Porter -- And with a vengeance / Margaret Gibson -- The third of July / Elizabeth Cox -- About the authors
Susie Mee has gathered a wealth of short fiction by southern women who--from their various backgrounds, from their different eras--draw on that shared lagacy she describes as that memory of "downhome," whether it is used lovingly or ironically.
9780156001212
95018978
Short stories, American
Women----Fiction
American fiction----20th century
Home----Fiction
Southern States---Social life and customs----Fiction
Domestic fiction
PS551 / .D69 1995
FIC DOW