A Place Like Mississippi: A Journey Through a Real and Imagined Literary Landscape

By: W. Ralph Eubanks

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Synopsis: &“This is the book all of us Mississippi writers, dead and alive, need to read. It is indeed a strange but glorious sensation to see your literary and geographic lineage so beautifully and rigorously explored and valued as it's still being created.&” —Kiese Laymon, author of Heavy: An American MemoirIn A Place Like Mississippi, award-winning author and Mississippi native W. Ralph Eubanks treats us to a literary tour of the evocative landscapes that have inspired writers in every era. From Faulkner to Wright, Welty to Trethewey, Mississippi has been both a backdrop and a central character in some of the most compelling prose and poetry of modern literature.The journey unfolds on a winding path, touching the muddy Delta, the rolling Hill Country, down to the Gulf Coast, and all points between. In every corner of the state lie the settings that informed hundreds of iconic works.Immersing us in these spaces, Eubanks helps us understand that Mississippi is not only a state but a state of mind. Or as Faulkner is said to have observed, &“To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.&”

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
Book Size:: 268 Pages
ISBN-13:: 9781643260587
Publisher:: Timber Press, Incorporated
Date of Addition:: 07/08/22
Copyrighted By:: W. Ralph Eubanks.
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: History, Nonfiction, Literature and Fiction, Outdoors and Nature, Language Arts
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.