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Article: Southern Aberrations: Writers of the American South and the Problem of Regionalism. (Book Reviews).(Review)
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- The Mississippi Quarterly
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- December 22, 2000
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Southern Aberrations: Writers of the American South and the Problem of Regionalism, by Richard Gray. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2000. 535 pp. $75.00 cloth. $34.95 paper.
RICHARD GRAY'S LATEST CONTRIBUTION to the body of Southern literary criticism is enormous, not merely because it numbers 535 pages but also because of its sweep--he begins with Edgar Allan Poe and ends with Ernest Gaines--and because of its aim: the investigation of Southern literature both as an aberration from the national norm and as a complex body of writing whose traditional premises are deviated from as often as they are upheld. Gray's interest is in what it means to ...