The Storied South features the voices--by turn searching and honest, coy and scathing--of twenty-six of the most luminous artists and thinkers in the American cultural firmament, from Eudora Welty, Pete Seeger, and Alice Walker to William Eggleston, Bobby Rush, and C. Vann Woodward. Masterfully drawn from one-on-one interviews conducted by renowned folklorist William Ferris over the past forty years, the book reveals how storytelling is viscerally tied to southern identity and how the work of these southern or southern-inspired creators has shaped the way Americans think and talk about the South.
The Storied South offers a unique, intimate opportunity to sit at the table with these men and women and learn how they worked and how they perceived their art. The volume also features 45 of Ferris's striking photographic portraits of the speakers and a CD and a DVD of original audio and films of the interviews.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 08/05/2013
ISBN: 9781469607542
Pages: 288
Weight: 2.26lbs
Size: 9.73h x 8.37w x 0.99d

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 04/22/2013
Library Journal 07/01/2013 pg. 79
Shelf Awareness 11/29/2013
Choice 04/01/2014