Strange Bedfellows: Randall Kenan Talks Back to the Southern Renaissance

2015 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 36-54
Author(s):  
Donnie McMahand
Keyword(s):  
Randall Kenan ◽  
Southern Renaissance

We So-Called Free Moderns

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Ritterhouse
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
North Carolina ◽  
White Supremacy ◽  
University Of North Carolina ◽  
The South ◽  
Thomas Wolfe ◽  
Southern Renaissance ◽  
The University

This chapter provides biographical background on Jonathan Daniels. His education at the University of North Carolina, ambitions as a novelist, and publication of Clash of Angels (1930) are highlighted. The death in childbirth of his first wife, Elizabeth Bridgers Daniels, made it difficult for the grieving Daniels to complete a second, satirical novel that might have been his entry into the developing Southern Renaissance alongside his former classmate Thomas Wolfe. The liberal-minded editorials Daniels wrote after taking over from his father as editor of the Raleigh News and Observer in 1933 are contrasted with Josephus Daniels's role in North Carolina's "white supremacy campaign" of 1898 that resulted in the Wilmington massacre. Jonathan's liberalism reflected the influence of other white southern liberals such as Regionalist sociologist Howard Odum and publisher W. T. Couch. New York editor Harold Strauss encouraged Daniels to write a book about the South, resulting in his journey.

Every True Pleasure

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
North Carolina ◽  
Military Service ◽  
Full Spectrum ◽  
Randall Kenan ◽  
Contemporary Life

Some of North Carolina's finest fiction and nonfiction writers come together in Every True Pleasure, including David Sedaris, Kelly Link, Allan Gurganus, Randall Kenan, and more. Within the volume-featuring writers who identify as gay, trans, bisexual, and straight-are stories and essays that view the full spectrum of contemporary life though an LGBTQ lens. These writers, all native or connected to North Carolina, show the multifaceted challenges and joys of LGBTQ life, including young love and gay panic, the minefield of religion, military service, having children with a surrogate, family rejection, finding one's true gender, finding sex, and finding love. One of the only anthologies of its kind, Every True Pleasure speaks with insight and compassion about living LGBTQ in North Carolina and beyond. Contributors include Jasmine Beach-Ferrara, Brian Blanchfield, Belle Boggs, Emily Chávez, Garrard Conley, John Pierre Craig, Diane Daniel, Allan Gurganus, MinroseGwin, Aaron Gwyn, Wayne Johns, Randall Kenan, Kelly Link, Zelda Lockhart, Toni Newman, Michael Parker, Penelope Robbins, David Sedaris, Eric Tran, and Alyssa Wong.

All the King's Men and the Southern Renaissance

1983 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 181
Author(s):  
Maria Lúcia Barbosa de Vasconcellos
Keyword(s):  
Southern Renaissance ◽  
King's Men

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A Southern renaissance?

UN Chronicle ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 34-35
Author(s):  
Vijay Prashad
Keyword(s):  
Southern Renaissance
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