Beasts of the Southern Wild and Other Stories explained

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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External links

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

Notes and References

1. Betts, Doris (1973). Beasts of the Southern Wild and Other Stories. Harper & Row Publishers
2. Hovis, George (2007). Vale of Humility: Plain Folk in Contemporary North Carolina Fiction. University of South Carolina Press,
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
5. Magee, Rosemary M. (1992). Friendship and Sympathy: Communities of Southern Women Writers. University Press of Mississippi,
6. Russell, Joseph (2013). Is this what you expected? Lulu Press Enterprises, Inc.