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New Southern Writers |
| Section: BOOK WORLD / REVIEWS |
| Author: David A. Hallman |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/1988 |
| Size: 2,845 Words, 17,190 Characters |
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THE NEW WRITERS OF THE SOUTH
Edited by Charles East
Athens, Ga.: University of Georgia Press, 1987
296 pp., $25.00
"There was a South of slavery and secession--that South is dead. There is a South of union and freedom--that South, thank God, is living, breathing, growing every hour." Thus, Atlanta editor/journalist Henry W. Grady opened one of the famous speeches in American history. "The New South" was delivered in 1886 in New York City. It arose from the pains and humiliations of Reconstruction and was delivered to the New England Society, a group of important northern financiers and public figures. Grady's speech was a well-crafted plea for a reconciliation between North and South and for economic support to develop a new region fashioned after the image of its industr...
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...ative. A selection by Clyde Edgerton, for instance, is a delightful read until one begins to hear the echoes of Eudora Welty's "Why I Sleep at the P.O." It is probably unfair to compare younger writers with older masters, but it is fair to ask whether they should emulate and flatter by imitation. At any rate, I would not bet my Confederate dollars just now that the South will soon rise again.
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