Southern Women’s Writing: Colonial to Contemporary. Edited by Mary Louise Weaks and Carolyn Perry.
1995 · Gainesville
by Weaks, Mary Louise and Carolyn Perry.
Gainesville: University Press of Florida, (1995). Octavo, softbound (slick, photo. illus. beige wrappers), xiv, 417 pp. Near Fine. From lower cover: A problematic relationship forms the core of this anthology -- the interwoven lives of southern women. On the one hand, they are linked by gender; on the other, they are divided by racism, class conflict, and sexual politics. As suggested by these selections from both white and African-American women from the early eighteenth to the late twentieth century, their struggles capture the essence and the evolution of the southern woman’s voice. With artistic and historical richness seldom found in literary anthologies, this collection includes letters, journal and diary entries, essays, poetry, and fiction, with an introduction to each historical period and a biography of each author. (Inventory #: 6597fd)