The Future of Southern Letters Book

	Contributors
	Introduction	3
1	Southern Writing and the Problem of the Father	20
2	Still Southern after All These Years	33
3	Writing on the Cusp: Double Alterity and Minority Discourse in Appalachia	41
4	The Shape of Appalachian Literature to Come: An Interview with Wil Hickson	54
5	Porch-Sitting and Southern Poetry	61
6	Of Canons and Cultural Wars: Southern Literature and Literary Scholarship after Midcentury	72
7	.... And Ladies of the Club	87
8	An Interview with Brenda Marie Osbey	93
9	The Discourse of Southernness: Or How We Can Know There Will Be Such a Thing as the South and Southern Literary Culture in the Twenty-First Century	119
10	Autobiographical Traditions Black and White	134
11	Speculations on a Southern Snipe	143
12	Robert Olen Butler: A Pulitzer Profile	155
13	The Rhetoric of Southern Humor	170
	Index	187