A collection of diverse voices and experiences, all springing from a shared legacy: memories of the american South, of being “downhome.” Mee introduces each group of stories and then lets the authors reveal aspects of the South from their own female point of view. Introduction by the Author.
Contents:
Isis by Zora Neale Hurston
Economics by Elizabeth Seydel Morgan
Sarah by Tina McElroy Ansa
Star in the valley by Mary Noailles Murfree
Ugliest pilgrim by Doris Betts
Music by Ellen Gilchrist
Wide net by Eudora Welty
After Moore by Mary Hood
White rat by Gayl Jones
Dare's gift by Ellen Glasgow
First dark by Elizabeth Spencer
Shiloh by Bobbie Ann Mason
Good country people by Flannery O'Connor
Everyday use by Alice Walker
Yellow ribbons by Susie Mee
Tongues of fire by Lee Smith
Gospel song by Dorothy Allison
New life by Mary Ward Brown
Grave by Katherine Anne Porter
And with a vengeance by Margaret Gibson
Third of July by Elizabeth Cox
A collection of diverse voices and experiences, all springing from a shared legacy: memories of the american South, of being “downhome.” Mee introduces each group of stories and then lets the authors reveal aspects of the South from their own female point of view. Introduction by the Author.
Contents:
Isis by Zora Neale Hurston
Economics by Elizabeth Seydel Morgan
Sarah by Tina McElroy Ansa
Star in the valley by Mary Noailles Murfree
Ugliest pilgrim by Doris Betts
Music by Ellen Gilchrist
Wide net by Eudora Welty
After Moore by Mary Hood
White rat by Gayl Jones
Dare's gift by Ellen Glasgow
First dark by Elizabeth Spencer
Shiloh by Bobbie Ann Mason
Good country people by Flannery O'Connor
Everyday use by Alice Walker
Yellow ribbons by Susie Mee
Tongues of fire by Lee Smith
Gospel song by Dorothy Allison
New life by Mary Ward Brown
Grave by Katherine Anne Porter
And with a vengeance by Margaret Gibson
Third of July by Elizabeth Cox