Contents

• The world is our home : an introduction / Jeffrey J. Folks and Nancy Summers Folks
• Competing histories : William Styron’s The confessions of Nat Turner and Sherley Ann Williams’s Dessa Rose / Susan Goodman
• New narratives of southern manhood : race, masculinity, and closure in Ernest Gaines’s fiction / Suzanne W. Jones
• The snake and the rosary : violence and the culture of piety in Sheila Bosworth’s Slow poison / Gary M. Ciuba
• "Because God’s eye never closes" : the problem of evil in Jayne Anne Phillips’s Shelter / James Grove
• Gender and justice : Alice Walker and the sexual politics of civil rights / Keith Byerman
• "Trouble" in Muskhogean County : the social history of a southern community in the fiction of Raymond Andrews / Jeffrey J. Folks
• "The politics of they" : Dorothy Allison’s Bastard out of Carolina as critique of class, gender, and sexual ideologies / Moira P. Baker
• Transcendence in the house of the dead : the subversive gaze of A lesson before dying / John Lowe
• Walker Percy’s Lancelot Lamar : defending the hollow core / Julius Raper
• Regeneration through nonviolence : Frederick Barthelme and the west / Robert H. Brinkmeyer Jr.
• Making peace with the (m)other / Barbara Bennett
• Toward healing the split : Lee Smith’s Fancy strut and Black Mountain breakdown / Linda J. Byrd
• Stories told by their survivors (and other sins of memory) : survivor guilt in Kaye Gibbons’s Ellen Foster / Linda Watts
• James Lee Burke’s Dave Robicheaux novels / Frank W. Shelton
• The physical hunger for the spiritual : southern religious experience in the plays of Horton Foote / Gerald C. Wood
• Richard Ford : the postmodern exile and the vanishing South / Joanna Price