Inventing Southern Literature

Winner of the 1997 Eudora Welty Prize “I take. . .an outward route, arguing that the Agrarian project was and must be seen as a willed campaign on the part of one elite to establish and control ‘the South’ in a period of intense cultural maneuvering. The principal organizers of I’ll Take My Stand knew full well there were other ‘Souths’ than the one they touted; they deliberately presented a fabricated South as the one and only real thing.” In Inventing Southern Literature Michael Kreyling casts