from Southern Local Color: Stories of Region, Race and Gender

Edited by Barbara C. Ewell and Pamela Glenn Menke, with notes by Andrea Humphrey
Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2002.

Online version of Ewell and Menke's "Introduction."


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