Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- The World Is Our Home: An Introduction -- Competing Histories: William Styron's The Confessions of Nat Turner and Sherley Ann Williams's Dessa Rose -- New Narratives of Southern Manhood: Race, Masculinity, and Closure in Ernest Gaines's Fiction -- The Snake and the Rosary: Violence and the Culture of Piety in Sheila Bosworth's Slow Poison -- "Because God's Eye Never Closes": The Problem of Evil in Jayne Anne Phillips's Shelter -- Gender and Justice: Alice Walker and the Sexual Politics of Civil Rights -- "Trouble" in Muskhogean County: The Social History of a Southern Community in the Fiction of Raymond Andrews -- "The Politics of They": Dorothy Allison's Bastard Out of Carolina as Critique of Class, Gender, and Sexual Ideologies -- Transcendence in the House of the Dead: The Subversion Gaze of A Lesson Before Dying -- Walker Percy's Lancelot Lamar: Defending the Hollow Core -- Regeneration Through Nonviolence: Frederick Barthelme and the West -- Making Peace with the (M)other -- Toward Healing the Split: Lee Smith's Fancy Strut and Black Mountain Breakdown -- Stories Told by Their Survivors (and Other Sins of Memory): Survivor Guilt in Kaye Gibbons's Ellen Foster -- James Lee Burke's Dave Robicheaux Novels -- The Physical Hunger for the Spiritual: Southern Religious Experience in the Plays of Horton Foote -- Richard Ford: The Postmodern Exile and the Vanishing South -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.