The Southern State of Mind

"Gretlund has collected a deeply thoughtful set of reflections about the contemporary regional spirit. . . . With coherence often lacking in collections of this kind, those interested in southern intellectuality will find this volume highly rewarding."—Journal of Southern History

"Gretlund has here assembled an impressive group of southern political scientists, historians, and literary critics, whose work together reinforces the truism that southern studies at its best casts a wide interdisciplinary net."—North Carolina Historical Review

"These sixteen essays look both backwards and forward through interdisciplinary lenses to suggest with intelligence and insight that we still have much to learn about Southern life, letters, and culture. Gretlund has fine-tuned their voices into an informative and profound symposium on the persistence of Southern identity at the millennium."—M. Thomas Inge, Robert Emory Blackwell Professor of English and the Humanities, Randolph-Macon College

"The Southern State of Mind sparkles with wisdom and wit as a galaxy of the foremost American and European scholars of Southern history and literature assess the region at the end of the second millennium—how far we have come, how far we have backslid, and how far we have to go."—Charles Joyner, author of Shared Traditions: Southern History and Folk Culture