Beasts of the Southern Wild and Other Stories
Beasts of the Southern Wild and Other Stories is a 1973 collection of short stories by Doris Betts.[1] The collection was nominated for a 1974 National Book Award.[2]
The story "The Ugliest Pilgrim" was adapted into the short film “Violet,” which won Best Live Action Short at the 54th Academy Awards.[3] It was later adapted into the musical Violet.
The title story "Beasts of the Southern Wild" was originally published in The Carolina Quarterly in 1973.[4] The title derives from the William Blake poem "The Little Black Boy." It is about an unhappily married woman named Carol who fantasizes she has been chosen as a concubine by Sam Porter, the provost of New African University.[5]
Stories
- The Ugliest Pilgrim
- Hitchiker
- The Mother-in-Law
- Beasts of the Southern Wild
- Burning the Bed
- Still Life with Fruit
- The Glory of his Nostrils
- The Spider Gardens of Madagascar
- Benson Watts is Dead and in Virginia
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References
- Betts, Doris (1973). Beasts of the Southern Wild and Other Stories. Harper & Row Publishers ISBN 9780060103217
- Hovis, George (2007). Vale of Humility: Plain Folk in Contemporary North Carolina Fiction. University of South Carolina Press, ISBN 9781570036965
- Vitello, Paul (April 24, 2012). Doris Betts, Novelist in Southern Tradition, Dies at 79. The New York Times
- Staff report (May 2, 2012). Remembering Doris Betts (1932-2012). The Carolina Quarterly
- Magee, Rosemary M. (1992). Friendship and Sympathy: Communities of Southern Women Writers. University Press of Mississippi, ISBN 9780878055456
- Russell, Joseph (2013). Is this what you expected? Lulu Press Enterprises, Inc.
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