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• W260496274 abstract "Arkansas, Arkansas: Writers and Writings from the Delta to the Ozarks, The Contemporary Scene, 1970-Present. Edited by John Caldwell Guilds. (Fayetteville: University of Press, 1999. Pp. xxiv, 716. Acknowledgements, general introduction. $42.00.) This second volume of Arkansas, confirms that John Caldwell Guilds is a diligent and conscientious editor. Guilds ranges widely in his search for representative writings, includes genres other than poetry and fiction, and does not overwhelm the selections with commentary and bibliographical apparatus. Above all, he succeeds in draining credibility from the stock cultural image of as a miasmatic jungle. The subtitle suggests that Guilds has two purposes: identify notable writers and present telling portraits of the state. However, these goals are not altogether compatible. The best work of an writer does not always touch upon Arkansas, and celebrated non-Arkansans have written about the state. Guilds well understands that an editor cannot simply pour all writers and writing into an anthology and expect a press to publish the resulting multi-volume opus, but the shifting organizational approach in Arkansas, suggests a basic uncertainty as to where the emphasis should be placed. Generally speaking, volume one takes the state itself as the topic while its successor places the writers at center stage. In the first installment of Arkansas, Arkansas, Guilds sorts his selections into three broad eras stretching from the de Soto expedition to an excerpt from True Grit. Contemporary travel accounts revealing conditions during the colonial and antebellum decades are supplemented by modem descriptions. Thus, the opening pages in the anthology offer an evolving portrait of early through changing historical perspectives. The downside to this approach is that the latter-day texts apparently leave no room for valuable nineteenth century observations by William Dunbar, Thomas Nuttall, and Henry Merrell. On the other hand, modem historical examinations are absent from the final chronological section. By the late nineteenth century accruing prosperity and new urban amenities sustained a growing class of writers. Not unexpectedly, Guilds offers generous helpings from the authors who began in the 1930s to celebrate traditional mountain life. In seeking to recover a lost world in their books, these authors established an aesthetic vision of the Ozarks that served as the most influential artistic expression of the first half of the twentieth century. This legacy persists throughout the second volume of the anthology. The alphabetization of authors in volume two reveals the diminishment of as subject. Those generally recognized as Arkansas writers, because of either nativity or long-term residence, appropriately dominate the contents. The prominence given Donald Harington and Miller Williams is deserved. Guilds wisely selects poems from throughout Williams' impressive career; but the lack of an excerpt from Harington's Let Us Build Us a City, the wondrous saga of forgotten places, suggests he is tipping the balance in favor of the literary imagination over descriptive narratives of place. Criteria commonly used to judge fiction and verse seem to govern which nonfiction texts make the grade. Finding its way into the anthology is Stephen Smith's Myth, Media, and the Southern Mind, a self-conscious successor to that Ur-text for students of southern literature, W. …" @default.
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