书名：Growing Up in the South 在南方长大

作者：Suzanne Jones
出版社名称：Signet Classics
出版时间：2003
语种：英文
ISBN：9780451528735
商品尺寸：10.7 x 2.8 x 17.1 cm
包装：简装
页数：544 （以实物为准）
Growing Up in the South《在南方长大》是美国作家Suzanne Jones的著作，描述了关于童年、青春期和青年时期在南方长大的故事，激发了许多美国优秀的故事讲述者和伟大作家的想象力。本书为Signet Classics推出的英文原版，内容完整无删减，书本轻巧便携。

Something about the South has inspired the imaginations of an extraordinary number of America’s best storytellers—and greatest writers. That quality may be a rich, unequivocal sense of place, a living connection with the past, or the contradictions and passions that endow this region with awesome beauty and equally awesome tragedy. The stories in this superb collection of modern Southern writing are about childhood, adolescence, and young adulthood—in other words, about growing up in the South. Flannery O’Connor’s “Everything That Rises Must Converge,” set in a South that remains segregated even after segregation is declared illegal, is the story of a white college student who chastises his mother for her prejudice against blacks. But black, white, aristocrat, or sharecropper, each of these 23 authors is unmistakably Southern—and their writing is indisputably wonderful.
Review
“An engaging collection... It succeeds splendidly.”
Suzanne W. Jonesis a professor of American Literature and Women’s Studies at the University of Richmond. The author of a number of essays about southern literature, she is also the editor of another collection of stories, Crossing the Color Line: Readings in Black and White, and two collections of essays, South to a New Place (with Sharon Monteith) and Writing the Woman Artist.

Growing Up in the SouthIntroduction

I. Remembering Southern Places
 Elizabeth Spencer, “The Gulf Coast”
 Harry Crews, from A Childhood: The Biography of a Place
 Eudora Welty, from One Writer's Beginnings
 Bobbie Ann Mason, “State Champions”
 Gustavo Pérez Firmat, “Mooning over Miami”
 Randall Kenan, “Where Am I Black”

II. Experiencing Southern Families
 William Hoffman, “Amazing Grace”
 Alice Walker, “Everyday Use”
 Lee Smith, “Artists”
 Shirley Ann Grau, “Homecoming”
 Ellen Gilchrist, “The President of the Louisiana Live Oak Society”
 Mary Hood, “How Far She Went”

III. Negotiating Southern Communities
 Richard Wright, “The Man Who Was Almost a Man”
 Flannery O'Connor, “Everything That Rises Must Converge”
 Peter Taylor, “The Old Forest”
 Gail Godwin, “The Angry Year”
 Michael Malone, “Fast Love”
 Jill McCorkle, “Carnival Lights”

IV. Challanging Southern Traditions
 William Faulkner, “An Odor of Verbena”
 Mary Mebane, from Mary
 Anne Moody, from Coming of Age in Mississippi
 Joan Williams, “Spring Is Now”
 Henry Louis Gates, Jr., “Sin Boldly”
 Ernest J. Gaines, “Thomas Vincent Sullivan”
Well, it wasn’t “grand,” let that be admitted. Natchez was grand. New Orleans had its seductive charms securely placed in a rich Creole history. Still, nothing gave Mississippians quite the same feeling as our own Gulf Coast.

We would come down to it driving through plain little towns, some pretty, some not, south of Jackson through Hattiesburg. The names come hack: Menden hail, Magee, Mount Olive, Collins, Wiggins, Perkins- ton. Somewhere along the way was Dolor, curiously pronounced Dee-Lo. In all of these, people of an Anglo-Saxon sameness in admirable (and not so admirable) qualities were pursuing life patterns thought out so long ago they could never be questioned. A day or two to piece the relationships together, learn a few names of Scottish or English origin, discover a cousin or two, and anyone from Carrolton or Winona or Pickens or Maiden could pick up the same routine of life there as in the ancestral home.