Eudora Welty was born in 1909, in Jackson Mississippi. She attended most of her schooling there, but did receive a degree in Wisconsin as well as in New York from Columbia University. She returned to Jackson in 1931. While she is often identified and associated with the vague literary diaspora that is “Southern Literature”, she,… Continue reading Correspondence and Poetry Recommendations of Eudora Welty
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Flannery O’Connor and The Southern Renaissance
After the American Civil War, the majority of Southern literary writers focused their pieces on the South’s past. It evoked a sense of nostalgia that was hard to move past. In the 1920s, a movement known as the Southern Renaissance came into action. The objective was not to forget, but to come to terms with… Continue reading Flannery O’Connor and The Southern Renaissance
An Exploration into James Dickey’s Writing Process
James Dickey, born in 1923 in Atlanta, Georgia, was a well-known 20th-century poet known for his extensive body of work, including poetry collections, such as The Whole Motion: Collected Poems, 1945-1992 (1990) and The Eagle’s Mile (1990). Dickey, who coined his own style as “country surrealism,” crafted a unique literary style that combined the realms… Continue reading An Exploration into James Dickey’s Writing Process
A Glimpse into Gender, Race, and Education in the South: Alice Walker’s Archives
Alice Walker was born in Eatonton, Georgia in 1944. Her mother, a maid, and her father, a sharecropper, struggled to provide for their family. Alice, the youngest of eight children, did not receive much parental attention. In 1952, When Walker was eight years old, one of her older brothers shot her right eye with a… Continue reading A Glimpse into Gender, Race, and Education in the South: Alice Walker’s Archives