Book of Donmon Teith

Shows how representations of poor white southerners helped shape middle-class identity and major American literary movements and genres.

"This book examines the concept of whiteness as imagined by four Southern writers of the post-Reconstruction period: Thomas Nelson Page, Ellen Glasgow, Charles

Peculiar Whiteness: Racial Anxiety and Poor Whites in Southern Literature, 1900–1965 argues for deeper consideration of the complexities surrounding the dispa

If the nation as a whole during the 1940s was halfway between the Great Depression of the 1930s and the postwar prosperity of the 1950s, the South found itself

Explores the abundance of Native American representations in US Southern literature.