Gracious Poems of the 21st Century South by John Poch, BryanGiemza Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2020 by Texas Tech University Press ISBN-13: 978-1-68283-064-2, ISBN: 1-68283-064-0
"John Poch’s newly curated collection, Gracious: Poems of the 21st Century South, spotlights both emerging and notable voices from this poetry-rich region. This book promises to be the best and most influential anthology of Southern poetry published in over thirty years. Gracious steers away from stereotypical mockingbird-and-magnolia verse and instead amplifies a variety of lyric voices covering a wide breadth of Southern experience. Br ..."
"First published by Houghton Mifflin in October 1941, just a few months before America s entry into World War II swept the nation s attention from the appearance of new fiction, this second novel by a writer of exceptional promise, who died two years later, is here rediscovered and newly introduced by Eudora Welty. In 1936, with the publication of his first novel, Green Margins, E. P. O Donnell introduced a new field for American liter ..."
"An outstanding group of scholars, authors, journalists and historians explores the social, economic, political and literary influences on the autobiographical masterpiece of Cormac McCarthy's Tennessee period. The only dedicated volume of critical essays on many aspects of this complex work, this volume discusses the Knoxville of McCarthy's childhood, its real-life denizens who became the novel's unforgettable characters, the problemati ..."
"In the 1930s, the U.S. government famously sent photographers across the country to document on film the need for federal assistance in rural areas. Dorothea Lange’s well-known image Migrant Mother came from this effort, along with thousands of other photographs. Ben Shahn, Russell Lee, and Marion Post Wolcott contributed some of those other images, many equally compelling. As primary photographers for the Farm Security Administration ( ..."
"In this expansive study, Bryan Giemza recovers a neglected subculture and retrieves a missing chapter of Irish Catholic heritage by canvassing the literature of American Irish writers from the U.S. South. Giemza offers a defining new view of Irish American authors and their interrelationships within both transatlantic and ethnic regional contexts. From the first Irish American novel, published in Winchester, Virginia, in 1817, Giemza ..."
"Essays by Kathryn Stelmach Artuso, William Ferris, Bryan Albin Giemza, David Gleeson, Patrick Griffin, Geraldine Higgins, Emily Kader, Conor O'Callaghan, Kieran Quinlan, and Christopher Smith Studies of the Irish presence in America have tended to look to the main corridors of emigration and hence outside the American South. Yet the Irish constituted a significant minority in the region. Indeed, the Irish fascination expresses itself i ..."
"This is the hardcover edition of You Would Not Believe What Watches: Suttree and Cormac McCarthy's Knoxville. This handsome volume is identical in content to the paperback edition."
Turned Inside Out Black, White, and Irish in the South : An Article from Southern Cultures 18:1, Spring 2012 by BryanGiemza 61 Pages, Published 2012 by Unc Press Books ISBN-13: 978-0-8078-3768-9, ISBN: 0-8078-3768-7
"An article from Southern Cultures 18:1, Spring 2012 Bryan Giemza. a servant
Charles ... White servants “were the first to be advertised for,” according to
Duncan. The Charleston ... 11 Mindful of revisionists who seek to downplay the
cruelties of slavery, Don Jordan and Michael Walsh's wellreviewed recent entry
on indenture, White Cargo: The Forgotten History of Britain's White Slaves in
America (2007), is careful not to conflate t ..."
"Much of American popular culture depicts the 1930s South either as home to a population that was intellectually, morally, and physically stunted, or as a romantic, sentimentalized haven untouched by the nation’s financial troubles. Though these images stand as polar opposites, each casts the South as an exceptional region that stood separate from American norms. Reassessing the 1930s South brings together historians, art critics, and li ..."
"Father Abram J. Ryan (1838--1886) held dual roles in the post--Civil War era: he was at once an architect of ascendant Lost Cause ideology and one of its leading icons. Among Southern sympathizers after the war, his celebrity placed him in a pantheon of Confederate figures that included Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson. Lee's surrender at Appomattox catapulted the then twenty-seven-year-old Catholic chaplain to regional and finally n ..."
Southern Literary Studies Irish Catholic Writers and the Invention of the American South by Bryan A. Giemza 384 Pages, Published 2013 by Lsu Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8071-5091-7, ISBN: 0-8071-5091-6
"If Toole had a basic grasp of southern old—time religion, his distance from the
Protestant center can be detected in the mordant wit of both his books. The Neon
Bible originated in Toole's experiment in “passing” from Catholic—infused New
Orleans to Protestant—dominated areas around it. At age sixteen he oined a best
friend from high school, Cary Laird, in visiting Laird's extended fam— ily in rural
Mississippi. Even the journey to ..."
"This new edition of Southern Writers assumes its distinguished predecessor’s place as the essential reference on literary artists of the American South. Broadly expanded and thoroughly revised, it boasts 604 entries—nearly double the earlier edition’s—written by 264 scholars. For every figure major and minor, from the venerable and canonical to the fresh and innovative, a biographical sketch and chronological list of published works pr ..."
"The historical record of poitín production across Ireland is scant, but E. B.
McGuire offers perhaps the best account of illicit whiskey making during the
eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. He explains, “Understandably there is
practically no ..."