Books published by University of Georgia Press

The eleven stories in Wendy Brenner's debut story collection concern people who are alone or feel themselves to be alone: survivors negotiating between logic and faith who look for mysterious messages and connections in everyday life, those sudden transformations and small miracles that occur in mundane, even absurd settings.

The People I Know is a collection of nine stories, told by characters who hover at the edge of life. Zafris's protagonists do not so much hurdle their barriers as contemplate them with varying degrees of humor, regret, and fanciful expectation.

Looks at works by such writers as Thomas Dixon, Erskine Caldwell, Zora Neale Hurston, William Faulkner, and Ralph Ellison to show how representations of time in southern narrative first accommodated but finally elucidated the relationship between these two political philosophies.

This study demonstrates how state courts enabled the mass propulsion of Native Americans from their southern homelands in the 1830s. The author argues that our understanding of this period is too often moulded around the towering personalities of the Indian removal debate.

Pharsalia, a plantation located in piedmont Virginia at the foot of the Blue Ridge Mountains, is one of the best-documented sites of its kind. This case study follows the fortunes of Pharsalia's owners, telling how Virginia's traditional extensive agriculture contributed to the soil's erosion and exhaustion.

One of seven children brought up by a single mother, Sonja Livingston was raised in areas of western New York that remain relatively hidden from the rest of America. Eschewing sentimentality, this memoir offers a meditation on what it means to hunger and shows that poverty can strengthen the spirit just as surely as it can grind it down.

Examines how postcolonial landscapes and environmental issues are represented in fiction. It explores the changes brought by colonialism and globalization as depicted in an array of international works of fiction in four thematically arranged chapters.

A collection of essays that shows how borders affect the groups living along them and the nature of the land and people abutting on and divided by boundaries.

A collection of poems of Anna Journey. It invites the reader into her peculiar, noir universe nourished with sex and mortality. It features poems that are haunted by demons, ghosts, and even the living who wander exotic landscapes that appear at once threatening and seductive.

William Faulkner is Phil Stone's contribution to American literature, once remarked a mutual confidant of the Nobel laureate. This book offers a critical assessment of Phil Stone's role in the transformation of Billy Falkner, a directionless young man, into William Faulkner, arguably the greatest American novelist of the twentieth century.