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The University of South Carolina Press, Columbia, South Carolina
Understanding Randall Kenan -- A community of ghosts -- Speaking for/speaking to the dead -- Brother Baldwin and the shadow of Tims Creek. "The Understanding Contemporary American Literature series was founded by the estimable Matthew J. Bruccoli...
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Understanding Randall Kenan -- A community of ghosts -- Speaking for/speaking to the dead -- Brother Baldwin and the shadow of Tims Creek. "The Understanding Contemporary American Literature series was founded by the estimable Matthew J. Bruccoli (1931-2008), who envisioned these volumes as guides or companions for students as well as good nonacademic readers, a legacy that will continue as new volumes are developed to fill in gaps among the nearly one hundred series volumes published to date and to embrace a host of new writers only now making their marks on our literature. As Professor Bruccoli explained in his preface to the volumes he edited, because much influential contemporary literature makes special demands, 'the word understanding in the titles was chosen deliberately. Many willing readers lack an adequate understanding of how contemporary literature works; that is, of what the author is attempting to express and the means by which it is conveyed.' Aimed at fostering this understanding of good literature and good writers, the criticism and analysis in the series provide instruction in how to read certain contemporary writers--explicating their material, language, structures, themes, and perspectives-- and facilitate a more profitable experience of the works under discussion"--
