(Hardback)

This book provides a critical introduction to Louisiana literature and gives special attention to how Louisiana literature and culture depart from the rest of the South.

The volume is the first collection of scholarly studies focusing on Louisiana writers from the 1930s to the present.

(Hardback)

The volume's 15 contributions, written by university professors in the fields of English and American literature, are arranged in sections reflecting three major influences exerted on writers during the post- Civil War era: changes in women's lives, work, and culture; issues of race and class in Lou