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By Jean W. Cash,Keith Perry,Rick Bass

With contributions from Robert G. Barrier, Robert Beuka, Thomas Ærvold Bjerre, Jean W. money, Robert Donahoo, Richard Gaughran, Gary Hawkins, Darlin' Neal, Keith Perry, Katherine Powell, John A. Staunton, and Jay Watson

Larry Brown is famous for his subjects--rural existence, poverty, warfare, and the operating class--and his spare, gritty variety. Brown's oeuvre spans a number of genres and comprises acclaimed novels (Dirty Work, Joe, Father and Son, The Rabbit Factory, and A Miracle of Catfish), brief tale collections (Facing the Music, Big undesirable Love), memoir (On Fire), and essay collections (Billy Ray's Farm). on the time of his loss of life, Brown (1951-2004) used to be thought of to be one of many best exemplars of minimalist, uncooked writing of the modern South.

Larry Brown and the Blue-Collar South considers the writer's complete physique of labor, putting it within the contexts of southern literature, Mississippi writing, and literary paintings in regards to the operating type. jointly, the essays discover such matters as Brown's remedy of sophistication politics, race and racism, the aftereffects of the Vietnam conflict on American tradition, the evolution of the South from a plantation-based economic climate to a postindustrial one, and male-female kinfolk. The position of Brown's mentors--Ellen Douglas and Barry Hannah--in shaping his paintings is mentioned, as is Brown's connection to such writers as Harry Crews and Dorothy Allison. the quantity is among the first severe reports of a author whose intensity and effect mark him as the most well-regarded Mississippi authors.

Jean W. money is professor of English at James Madison collage. She is the writer of Flannery O'Connor: A Life. Keith Perry is affiliate professor of English at Dalton nation collage and the writer of The Kingfish in Fiction: Huey P. lengthy and the fashionable American Novel. Rick Bass is the writer of novels and collections of nonfiction and brief tales, such a lot lately The Lives of Rocks: Stories.

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