Southern writers bear witness : interviews / Jan Nordby Gretlund ; foreword by Daniel Cross Turner.

Includes index.

"Jan Nordby Gretlund has been studying the literature of the American South for some fifty years, and his outsider's perspective as a European scholar has made him an intellectually acute witness of both the literature and its creators. Whether it is their language and reflexive storytelling or the craft and techniques by which writers transform life and experience into art that fascinates Gretlund, elements of their fiction led to his interviews with the fourteen storytellers featured in Southern Writers Bear Witness. Gretlund believes a good interview will always reveal something about a writer's life and character, details that can inform a reading of that writer's fiction. The interviewer's task, according to Gretlund, is to supply the reader with some of the sources and experiences that inspired and shaped the fiction. Through his conversations Gretlund also occasionally elicits the subjects' reflections on other writers and their work to discover affiliations, lines of influence, and divergences, and he also emphasizes the enduring power of their work"-- Provided by publisher.

Cover; Southern Writers Bear Witness; Title; Copyright; Dedication; CONTENTS; FOREWORD; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; Autobiography and Fiction: An Interview with Pat Conroy Beaufort Inn, November 4, 2015; Lines out across the Gap: An Interview with Pam Durban Beaufort, South Carolina, January 23, 2004; Interview with Clyde Edgerton Jackson, Mississippi, March 26, 1996; Interview with Clyde Edgerton Wilmington, North Carolina, September 29, 2010; Percival Everett Odense, Denmark, March 13-14, 2013; In My Own Style: An Interview with Kaye Gibbons Raleigh, North Carolina, June 18, 1996.

Interview with Barry Hannah Oxford, Mississippi, April 12, 1982Interview with Barry Hannah His home on Van Buren Street, south of Oxford, Mississippi, June 3, 1985; Fiction Is Like Fire and Flood: Interviews with Mary Hood Oxford, Mississippi, March 26, 1996; Woodstock, Georgia, October 30, 2000; Interview with Mary Hood Commerce, Georgia, October 29, 2014; The Excitement and the Mystery of the Immediate: Interviews with Josephine Humphreys The Confederate Widows' Home, Charleston, South Carolina, May 26, 1993; January 27, 1996; May 9, 2000; May 2, 2001.

Interview with Josephine Humphreys Charleston, South Carolina, October 21, 2014Out of the Garden Forever: Interviews with Madison Jones Auburn, Alabama, June 3, 1978; January 12, 1981; A Good Man with a Good Voice-"You can lead a mule to water": Interview with Martin Luther King Sr. The Ebenezer Baptist Church, Atlanta, Georgia, June 1, 1978; Laying the Ghost of Marcus Aurelius: An Interview with Walker Percy Covington, Louisiana, January 2, 1981; Difficult Times: An Interview with Walker Percy Covington, Louisiana, January 29, 1985.

Interview with Ron Rash: With Thomas Bjerre's Participation Clemson, South Carolina, October 28, 2014Interviews with Dori Sanders York County, South Carolina, March 11, 1996; Aeroe Island, Denmark, August 23, 1997; Beaufort, South Carolina, January 29, 1999; Hilton Head, South Carolina, November 5, 2010; Interviews with Eudora Welty 1119 Pinehurst Street, Jackson, Mississippi, February 9, June 8, 1978; Seeing Real Things: An Interview with Eudora Welty 1119 Pinehurst Street, Jackson, Mississippi, May 20, 1993; INDEX OF AUTHORS AND WORKS.

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