Interviews with seven contemporary writers / Laurie L. Brown -- Fiction of Anne Tyler / Doris Betts -- Alice Walker's celebration of self in Southern generations / Thadious M. Davis -- Gail Godwin and the ideal of Southern womanhood / Carolyn Rhodes -- Eating the moment absolutely up : the fiction of Beverly Lowry / Merrill Maguire Skaggs -- Shirley Ann Grau and the short story / Mary Rohrberger -- Lisa Alther : the irony of return / Mary Anne Ferguson -- Ellen Douglas : moralist and realist / Carol S. Manning -- Doris Betts's Nancy Finch : a heroine for the 1980s / Dorothy M. Scura -- Mermaids, angels and free women : the heroines of Elizabeth Spencer's fiction / Peggy Witman Prenshaw -- Mary Lee Settle's connections : class and clothes in the Beulah quintet / Nancy Carol Joyner -- The androgynous, bi-racial vision of Berry Morgan / Margaret Jones Bolsterli -- Rita Mae Brown : feminist theorist and Southern novelist / Martha Chew -- Youth in Toni Cade Bambara's Gorilla, my love / Nancy D. Hargrove -- The miracle of realism : the bid for self-knowledge in the fiction of Ellen Gilchrist / Jeanie Thompson & Anita Miller Garner -- World of Lee Smith / Anne Goodwyn Jones -- The career of Joan Williams : problems in assessment / Judity Bryant Wittenberg -- Stopping places : Bobbie Ann Mason's short stories / Maureen Ryan -- Why there are no Southern writers / Daphne Athas.
