Please, please, share just a bit more on what embodies the Southern novel? Please?
Well, I've never considered myself an authority, though Southern fiction has been a strong influence on my work. I'm better at pointing to Southern literature from the early and mid-20th Century (the so-called "Southern Renaissance") than I am with contemporary Southern novels. William Faulkner, Flannery O'Connor, Zora Neale Hurtson, Harper Lee, Tennessee Williams, Eudora Welty, Carson McCullers, on up to authors like Walker Percy and John Kennedy Toole.
Actually, there's a decent entry covering Southern fiction on Wikipedia. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_literature)
Re: Southern novels
Please, please, share just a bit more on what embodies the Southern novel? Please?
Well, I've never considered myself an authority, though Southern fiction has been a strong influence on my work. I'm better at pointing to Southern literature from the early and mid-20th Century (the so-called "Southern Renaissance") than I am with contemporary Southern novels. William Faulkner, Flannery O'Connor, Zora Neale Hurtson, Harper Lee, Tennessee Williams, Eudora Welty, Carson McCullers, on up to authors like Walker Percy and John Kennedy Toole.
Actually, there's a decent entry covering Southern fiction on Wikipedia. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_literature)