Fabulous Provinces by Thomas Daniel Young In this affectionate memoir one of the principal scholars of southern literature reflects on his lifelong study and offers his view of how the great writers of the South chanced to emerge during the worst of economic eras in that region. Though he sees this phenomenon through the lens of his own experience in Mississippi, he brings into focus the question so often asked by literary critics and historians, "Why did the American literary renaissance between 1920 and 1940 occur in the South?" Young provides a fresh answer. His own background in a Mississippi hamlet, his growing up as the son of a country doctor, and his awakening to the richness of his heritage in an economically backward region cause him to see in himself parallels throughout the South that produced the remarkable literary outburst. A heritage like his own that arose from deeply felt human qualities rather than from secure economic conditions, he feels, was principally...

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