Bøker av Michael Kreyling

Kreyling confronts the changing nature of our relationship to the anniversary of the war that nearly split the United States, revealing as much about our sense of place in the present as our conception of the past. These essays explore the mechanisms by which each era has staged, written, and thought about the meaning of the Civil War.

Casts a penetrating ray on the traditional canon of southern literature and questions the modes by which it was created. Michael Kreyling investigates the historical conditions under which literary and cultural critics have invented "the South" and how they have chosen its representations.