Southern Quarterly, January 1st, 2003
Tennessee Williams and the South. By Kenneth Holditch and Richard Freeman Leavitt. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2002. 111 pp. $30.00
No where in Tennessee Williams and the South is Williams characterized as a "Southern writer," for such a label, in the case of Williams, would only serve to diminish his reputation as a dramatist of international renown; and yet, as Kenneth Holditch demonstrates, and as Richard Levitt illustrates with photographs, the South was nevertheless "the strongest and most abiding influence on [Williams's ] creations" (xiii). Remembering the South as a kind...
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