A slant, an angle, or a jolt just below the line of what would be considered the norm for usual responses to African American literary production" (viii). Expressly, "south of tradition" indicates "readings of texts that are not in keeping with expected responses to the works. The "south" in Trudier Harris-Lopez's title signifies the author's location as a southern African American critic, gestures toward thematic continuity throughout the anthology and, at times, pertains to geography.
MFS Modern Fiction Studies 51.3 (2005) 686-689Ī collection of twelve essays composed over a fourteen-year period, South of Tradition: Essays on African American Literature represents an expansive landscape of knowledge possessed by a seasoned scholar of African American literature.
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