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.

External links

Beasts of the Southern Wild and Other Stories via Simon & Schuster

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[betts1973-1] Betts, Doris (1973). Beasts of the Southern Wild and Other Stories. Harper & Row Publishers ISBN 9780060103217

[hovis-2] Hovis, George (2007). Vale of Humility: Plain Folk in Contemporary North Carolina Fiction. University of South Carolina Press, ISBN 9781570036965

[nytobit-3] Vitello, Paul (April 24, 2012). Doris Betts, Novelist in Southern Tradition, Dies at 79. The New York Times

[4] Staff report (May 2, 2012). Remembering Doris Betts (1932-2012). The Carolina Quarterly

[Magee-5] Magee, Rosemary M. (1992). Friendship and Sympathy: Communities of Southern Women Writers. University Press of Mississippi, ISBN 9780878055456

[6] Russell, Joseph (2013). Is this what you expected? Lulu Press Enterprises, Inc.

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