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1970Saul Bellow: Mr. Sammler’s Planet
1971John Updike: Rabbit ReduxWalker Percy: Love in the RuinsDon DeLillo: AmericanaBernard Malamud: The Tenants William H. Gass: Willie Masters’ Lonesome Wife
1972John Barth: ChimeraRudolfo Anaya: Bless Me, UltimaChaim Potok: My Name Is Asher LevDon DeLillo: End Zone
1973Thomas Pynchon: Gravity’s RainbowPhilip Roth: The Great American NovelJoyce Carol Oates: Do With Me What You Will
1974Joseph Heller: Something HappenedIshmael Reed: The Last Days of Louisiana RedGail Godwin: The Odd Woman
1975William Gaddis: JRE.L. Doctorow: RagtimeDonald Barthelme: The Dead FatherSaul Bellow: Humboldt’s Gift
1976Don DeLillo: Ratner’s StarJoyce Carol Oates: ChildwoldJohn Hawkes: Travesty
1977Leslie Marmon Silko: CeremonyToni Morrison: Song of SolomonRobert Coover: A Public BurningWalker Percy: Lancelot
1978Don DeLillo: Running DogJohn Irving: The World According to Garp
1979Philip Roth: The Ghost WriterWilliam Styron: Sophie’s ChoiceBernard Malamud: Dubin’s LivesNorman Mailer: The Executioner’s Song
Southern FictionSouthern Fiction
1861-1865: “The War between the States”The Confederate States of America
1863-1877: ReconstructionReconstruction of state and society in the former Confederacy and the abolition of slavery
Class structure in Antebellum South
Southern aristocracy (plantation owners, slaveholders)
Slaves
Characteristic themes in Southern literature
History of the South
Family
Community
Racial tension
Religion
Class
Mark Twain: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885)
“The Lost Cause of the Confederacy”
Nostalgic yearning for the Antebellum era
Thomas Nelson Page
Criticism of Antebellum nostalgia and racism
Charles W. Chesnutt
Kate Chopin(1850-1904)
The Awakening (1899)
Southern Renaissance1930s and 1940s
William Faulkner(1897-1962)
The Sound and the Fury (1929)
The first American representative of literary modernism
As I Lay Dying (1930)
Absalom, Absalom! (1936)
Southern Renaissance1930s and 1940s
Thomas Wolfe(1900-1938)
Look Homeward, Angel (1929)
Of Time and the River (1935)
Southern Renaissance1930s and 1940s
Katherine Anne Porter (1890-1980)
Robert Penn Warren(1905-1989)
Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960)
Old Mortality(1937)
Night Rider(1939)
Their Eyes Were Watching God(1937)
Southern bestsellers
19361960
Further authors
Eudora Welty (1909-2001)Eudora Welty (1909-2001) Carson McCullers (1917-1967)Carson McCullers (1917-1967)
Flannery O’Connor (1925-1964)Flannery O’Connor (1925-1964)
Walker Percy (1916-1990)Walker Percy (1916-1990)
William Styron (1925-2006)William Styron (1925-2006)
Flannery O’Connor
“Good Country People” in A Good Man Is Hard to Find (1955)
Mrs. Hopewell Mrs. Freeman
Joy “Hulga” [Hopewell] Glynese and Carramae
Ph.D. in Philosophy
Manly PointerBible salesman
What is the value of knowledge?Is it possible to believe in nothing(ness)?
What makes a person “good”?Is “perversion” immoral or amoral?
atheist
artificial leg
Further works by Flannery O’Connor
Wise Blood (1952)The Violent Bear It Away (1960)
Novels
Short story collections
A Good Man is Hard to Find (1955)Everything That Rises Must Converge (1965)The Complete Stories (1971)
Walker Percy
Lancelot (1977)
References to the Arthurian legend
Lancelot Andrewes Lamar Percival
Robert Merlin
Quest for the “Unholy Grail” Third Revolution Proto-fascism
The degeneration of the “Southern gentleman”
Anachronism
The possibility of pure evil
Central themes:
Confession (Catholicism?) as a means to achieve salvation
Further works by Walker Percy
The Moviegoer (1961)
The Last Gentleman (1966)
Love in the Ruins (1971)
The Second Coming (1980)
The Thanatos Syndrome (1987)
Novels
William Styron
Lie Down in Darkness (1951)
The deconstruction of the family
Milton and Helen Loftis Daughters: Peyton and Maudie
The Confessions of Nat Turner (1967)Based on the slave revolt in Virginia in 1831Godly inspiration vs. human agency
Sophie’s Choice (1979)
Sophie Zawistowska’s “choice” on her arrival at Auschwitz
All three novels thematize the problematics of moral choice
Further works by William Styron
Set This House on Fire (1960)
Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness (1990)
A Tidewater Morning: Three Tales from Youth (1993)
Havanas in Camelot (posthumous; 2008)