Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-241) and index.
Crossing the tracks of the Dixie limited: overcoming anxiety of influence and filling in the blanks -- Cross-country corpses in Faulkner, Barthelme, and McMurtry -- Miss Jane is still not in the history books: gender, race, and class discrimination in the fiction of Faulkner and Gaines -- The sterile new south: Hurston's contemporaneous deconstruction of the paradigm -- Resounding truths in Absalom Absalom! and Song of Solomon: exploring epistemology with Faulkner and Morrison -- No mere endurance here: the prevailing woman's voice in Lee Smith's Oral history -- Rape fantasies vs. rape realities: more skeletons coming out of southern closets -- Don't just sit there; do something: frustration with Faulkner from Glasgow to Gautreaux