“Southern writers embrace the freedom of going out West, but once they get out there, it’s almost too free—there’s not enough community or settlement—so in the literature the characters swing back South, or they settle down in the West and embrace Southern ideals of community. They discover their Southernness by leaving the South.” (I didn’t discover my Southernness by being exiled in Oklahoma, I just discovered Okies’ appalling lack ofSouthernness!)
—Robert H. Brinkmeyer, quoted in
The Southern Register, Winter 1999
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