Southern Authors Versus Contemporary Modern Authors

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Southern Authors versus Contemporary Modern Authors
The writing style of the southern authors of the past is quite distinctive from the modern contemporary authors of today. They are each unique in their perspective because what or how they view the subjects they write about. Older southern writers such as Wilma Dykeman, Eudora Welty and William Faulkner write of regions where they are from in the South, commonly referred to as the old South. They write stories of the earth, children, history, women, relationships between the black and white races and civil rights movements. Whereas the modern contemporary authors tend to write about their own personal lives and experiences, often repetitiously using the same theme. John Grisham is a famous contemporary modern author that is widely associated with this style.
The disparities in the works of the modern contemporary author versus the works of old southern authors are both similar and completely opposite. The author Wilma Dykeman was born in Asheville, North Carolina May 23, 1920. Her first published piece of work was entitled, “The Tall Woman.” Mountains between the time of the Civil War and the turn of the century. FRAGMENT (-5) The common themes in all of her novels are about woman, family, and the earth. She captures the relationships between blacks and whites in a mythological way. Dykeman wrote in her novels about “…the belief that blacks did not want civil rights and the perception that the civil rights movement was a communist plot.” (Bain and Flora 131). (The period goes after the parentheses.) She exposes the stereotypes that have been associated with the South and all Southerners. “Wilma Dykeman has been treated as a talented author, but not an important one, perhaps because her novels are set in Appalachia, an area that has suffered under pejorative definitions of “regionalism.” (Bain and Flora 134). As a result, she is considered more of an “...