A Poetics of an outsider
Article Abstract:
A Caucasian poet who grew up in the American South discusses how the region's history of racial injustice and the atrocities of Jim Crow were major influences on his work. He also reflects on the continued racial discrimination in U.S. educational institutions.
Publication Name: Southern Quarterly
Subject: Regional focus/area studies
ISSN: 0038-4496
Year: 2007
User Contributions:
Comment about this article or add new information about this topic:
The southern poet as expatriate
Article Abstract:
An expatriate Southern poet addresses the complex emotional and social reasons that compel writers to leave the region. She argues that the conflicting desire to return and the refusal to go back are reflected in expatriates' work.
Publication Name: Southern Quarterly
Subject: Regional focus/area studies
ISSN: 0038-4496
Year: 2007
User Contributions:
Comment about this article or add new information about this topic:
On being a southern poet
Article Abstract:
The author contemplates the significance of being a southern poet and identifies the diverse cultural and historical elements of the American South that have influenced his works.
Publication Name: Southern Quarterly
Subject: Regional focus/area studies
ISSN: 0038-4496
Year: 2007
User Contributions:
Comment about this article or add new information about this topic:
- Abstracts: The spice route. The new restaurant renaissance. Extreme gardening
- Abstracts: Of time and the river. The emperor's new overalls
- Abstracts: Confessions of a card counter. A false spring
- Abstracts: Impact of the Asian crisis on Singapore's export competitiveness. The Asian crisis: an economic analysis of the causes
- Abstracts: The Haitian revolution and the sale of Louisiana. The Franco-African peoples of Haiti and Louisiana. Creole Louisiana's Haitian exile(s)